It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I assume you know that, he said.
Isn’t death a blessing? Doesn’t it define the value of our lives, minute to minute, year to year?
Is his manhood a sham? Does he love himself or hate himself? I don’t think he knows. Or it changes minute to minute. Or the question is so implicit in everything he does that he can’t get outside it t...
In other words if I give up now I’ll almost surely give up in the more important contests of the future. That’s it exactly, Gary. I’m giving up, I said.
In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.
I was living, in short, on the edge of a landscape of vast shame.
I move past the scaffolding and walk down the steps, hearing one language after another, rich, harsh, mysterious, strong. This is what we bring to the temple, not prayer or chant or slaughtered rams....
I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and real. This is what I lo...
How stupid these people were, coming into my office unarmed.
How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
How can people live their whole lives without knowing the names of their own parts of the body?
History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected knowledge, took faith from the solid and availing stuff of our experien...
Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze with mystery and spiral light. Let us both live forever, in sick...
Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom. ... Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. You thought he wou...
He liked to mingle with shopping mall crowds. I’m counting on you to tell me, Jack. Tell you what? You’re the only person I know that’s educated enough to give me the answer. The answer to what? Were...
He could have told George a writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This is how we reply to power and beat back our fear. By extending the pitch of c...
Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.
Et puis aussi, c'était New York, où les gens ne posent pas de questions.
Don’t we know when a death is passing in the air?
Civilization did not rise and flourish as men hammered out hunting scenes on bronze gates and whispered philosophy under the stars, with garbage as a noisome offshoot, swept away and forgotten. No, ga...