Francine Prose Quote

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. The...

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

A loving heart, determination, faith, courage, trust, belief, truth, and a solid soul create the wings with which we fly.