There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.
A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface at a given moment. A period of gestation is certainly needed, what Wordsworth called ‘emotion recollected in tranquility. ’ You cannot write about an experience when you are living it, suffering it. You are too busy surviving to look at it objectively. At least I can’t.
One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.
In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. . . . I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.
when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.
I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.
I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.
Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.