Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.
I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.
Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.
The best defense is a good story.
What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.
If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.
Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.
The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self. . . so the hell with it. . . I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
I never get bored of a workout, because I feel great after a session.