The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.
There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I? I was a nineteen-year-old and I was in love with Louis and I was in love with you, and I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful as the sight of you walking out a glass door in the early morning, still sleepy, in your underwear. Isn't it strange?
The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a love complex and ravenous, ancient, neither this nor that. It will serve as this afternoon's manifestation of the central mystery itself, the elusive brightness that shines from the edges of certain dreams; the brightness which, when we awaken, is already fading from our minds, and which we rise in the hope of finding, perhaps today, this new day in which anything might happen, anything at all.
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me & incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
A writer should always feel like he's in over his head
What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is. . . It was death. I chose life.
People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.
We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.
I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.