I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction.
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction
It's getting the right person that's the challenge.
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
the whole purport of literature. . . is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.
I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.