It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.
I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.
If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee
Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her. . . chest. ' Iggy drew in a hissing breath. It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate. ' Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin.