You’re smart enough to recognize that the subjects of migraines and cats never fail with the women. Lead the old girl toward the mint tea.
Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient.
The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price.
That’s where the public like their artists—exposed, trousers down, arse up, doing a long stretch among serial killers, and shitting in front of strangers. That’ll teach ’em to think their talent makes...
Plato, along with the latest pope, recognised how dangerous it is to have an artist around making mischief, stirring things up with the spoon of truth and intoxicant of fantasy and magic. And so, for...
Mutual transformation is rare, as good things are. In my view, a person should live as they wish until they find someone they want to be faithful to. After all, as you say, one can’t suck oneself off.
In chili’s hand were his car keys, Ray-bans and Marlboros, without which he wouldn't leave his bathroom. Chili drank only black coffee and neat Jack Daniel’s; his suits were Boss, his underwear Calvin...
I was falling in love with myself. Not that beauty, or life itself, means much if you’re in a room on your own. Heaven is other people.
Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning--it was ultimately indigestible.
Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.
Asentí con la cabeza. Al fin y al cabo asentir no puede considerarse exactamente una mentira, ¿no?
Ali isto tako sam i shvatio da prestupnistvo samo ucvrscuje pravila koja pokusava da prekrsi. Nista ne osnazuje normu kao odstupanje od nje.
Nos aferramos al pasado -dijo-, a lo antiguo, porque tenemos miedo. [...] Nuestras vidas se estancan, se vuelven rancias. Nos da miedo todo lo nuevo, todo cuanto podría ayudarnos a crecer, a cambiar.
قد علمتني الحياة أنه حين يراك الآخرون متحمساً، تفتر حماستهم هم، والعكس صحيح . لذا كلما ازدادت رغبتي بأمر ما، تصنّعت بروداً أعظم حياله .
You can’t just let people down, dammit.
The point is, Harry, if I’m not to find you abhorrent, there will have to be more reciprocity all round. Particularly from your side.
Suddenly I shouted into the night air. 'Yes, yes, yes, it is true!And now the world had some tension in it; now it twanged and vibrated with meaning and possibility! 'Yes, yes, fucking yes!
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.
One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else’s childhood.
My pleasures disappeared with my vices.