He sat heavily down on a tall tubular adjustable chair, which shortened suddenly under his weight and split him on the floor. Somebody always leaves a banana-skin on the scene of a tragedy.
He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt for every soul in the world: all the fear and the wish to save concentrated unjustly...
He put his mouth on her and kissed her on the cheek; he was afraid of the mouth-thoughts travel too easily from lip to lip.
He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
Do you like dogs?''No.''I thought the British were great dog-lovers.''We think Americans love dollars, but there must be exceptions.
Can't one love or hate, I broke out at him, as long as that? Don't make any mistake. I'm just another of your jealous clients, I don't claim to be any different fro m the rest,but there's been a time-...
And sitting there, my fingers on the quiet instrument, with something to look forward to, I thought to myself: I remember. This is what hope feels like.
Always I find when I begin to write there is one character who obstinately will not come alive...He never does the unexpected thing, he never surprises me, he never takes charge. Every other character...
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
I didn't know it buy You moved in the pain. I said, let him be alive,' not believing in You, and my disbelief made no difference to You. You took it into Your love and accepted it like an offering, an...
A writer's knowledge of himself, realistic and unromantic, is like a store of energy on which he must draw for a lifetime: one volt of it properly directed will bring a character to life.
Είμαστε ανόητοι όταν αγαπάμε. Έτρεμα στη σκέψη μήπως τη χάσω. Πίστεψα ότι την είδα να αλλάζει - δεν ξέρω αν όντως άλλαζε, πάντως μου ήταν αδύνατον πια να αντέξω την αβεβαιότητα. Έτρεξα προς το τέλος,...
Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any monoprix store. it's built into all poor-quality goods.
You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect t...
You cannot love without intuition.
Why are some of us, he wondered, unable to love success or power or great beauty? Because we feel unworthy of them, because we feel more at home with failure? He didn't believe that was the reason. Pe...
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant...