Despair is something horribly simple.
No one ever hates without a cause....
That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.
Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shavi...
Katherine Anne [Porter] treated them like favored nephews; she even cooked meals for them. Unfortunately, however, beneath Christopher’s deference and flattery, there was a steadily growing aggression...
All around George, approaching him, crossing his path from every direction, is the male and female raw material which is fed daily into this factory, along the conveyor-belts of the freeways, to be pr...
The persecuting majority is vile, says the liberal, the persecuted minority must be stainlessly pure...What's to prevent the bad from being persecuted by the worse? Did all the Christian victims on t...
So now George has arrived. He is not nervous inthe least. As he gets out of his car, he feels an upsurge of energy, of eagerness for the play to begin. And he walks eagerly, with a springy step, along...
No time to worry about that now. In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. In ten minutes, George will have to be George—the George they have named and will recognize. So now he consciously app...
I am a camera with its shutter open
Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.
He feels a nausea of distaste for them all; then sudden rage. Damn all food. Damn all life. He would like to abandon his shopping-cart, although it's already full of provisions.But that would make ext...
Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp.
The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.
Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.
I put my genius into my life, not into my art.
But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until —...
They keep telling you, when you’re older, you’ll have experience—and that’s supposed to be so great. What would you say about that, sir? Is it really any use, would you say?What kind of experience?Wel...
Mr. Pilates was a bully and a narcissist and a dirty old man; he and Christopher got along very well. When Christopher was doing his workout, Pilates would bring one of his assistants over to watch, r...
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.