It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled "the past," and, having thus emptied t...his deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the pia...no by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bo...dies for solace?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed wh...ich determined the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or w...ith martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His meter was bitter, and ironic and spectacular and inviting: so was life. There wasn't much other life during those times than t...o what his pen paid the tribute of poetic tragic glamour and offered the reconciliation of the familiarities of tragedy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. An...yway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds... and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating ...their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »