I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.
The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.
I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.
What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light. '
I heard words and words full of holes aching.
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts:. . . she knew there was nothing to fear.
I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.