Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow
how to live away from places and people I love. Joseph Brodsky was right. So were Nabokov and Conrad. They were artists who never returned. Each had tried, in his own way, to cure himself of his...
For me, school had been a Darwinian exercise. A daily attack of ridicule, abuse, and isolation.
I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot about yourself if it's the right teacher. You're putting yourself up there in front of people, and it...
The words from across the ocean were beaten out of them over time. For simplicity, to erase their identities, to smother uprisings.
Silence can bring us into alignment with our thoughts and feelings and help us to hear the quiet spiritual voice of our intuition.
I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
I hate to travel with stuff.
The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.
All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a...
We can't help the way we're born. We can't help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
If you don't have compassion you won't be compelled to help.
At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.
Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World.
A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.
Transform yourself from desperate doormat to outspoken doormat - wielding proctologist.
For the record, I thought you were untouchable. But now that I know you think I'm a hot, sexy, Mexican god . .
"Of course they were eaten," he retorted, his eyes flashing in cold humour. "Trolls generally aren’t exactly renowned for being vegetarians."
Savannah purred, her voice strong in his mind. he objected strenuously.
In all social classes except the most privileged, abnegation and hard work are considered the supreme female virtues; a spirit of sacrifice is a question of honor: the more one suffers for family, the...
"Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed."
Most good chefs believe there is no such thing as too much garlic.
Self respect and reality is tough rival when it comes to balance it honestly.
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
You are not a handgun. More like a pellet gun. Maybe even a slingshot.
So," I said. "Seems you're going to be stuck with me for a while."He smiled. A real smile that lit up his whole face."Good
Uncertainty is a temptress. We may try our best to avoid her. But what is certain is that at some point of time, she will find us. The only question that remains is whether like Medusa, she will...
The world has loosened, like a woman preparing for bed who lets her hair flow free. And I am whispering the words, knowing that words matter, and smiling as I say them to the shadows of the gods of...
But I lived in that moment - my life became beautiful again for those few seconds when our hands grazed.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.
He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze,...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?