She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.
I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.
I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.
I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.
I insist upon 'doing it alone'. . . I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss. . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.