That day in Chartres they had passed through town and watched women kneeling at the edge of the water, pounding clothes against a flat, wooden board. Yves had watched them for a long time. They had wa...
Solitude is the home of the strong; silence, their prayer.
She knows Daddy better than I do. I think it's because she's felt since we were children that our Daddy maybe loved me more than he loves her. This isn't true, and she knows that now--people love diff...
Maybe it’s because you see people differently than you saw them before your trouble started. Maybe you wonder about them more, but in a different way, and this makes them very strange to you. Maybe yo...
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
He grins again, and everything inside me moves. Oh, love. Love.
Everything was as it had been between us, and at the same time everything was different.
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
They ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
The aim of the dreamer, after all, is merely to go on dreaming and not be molested by the world. His dreams are his protection against the world. But the aims of life are antithetical to those of the...
One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and, besides, the social treatment accorded even the most succes...
Lord, that Hollywood train, forever coming round the bend!
In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.
In the culture to be born there will no doubt be old and new elements. How these elements will be mixed is not a question to which any individual can respond. The response must be given by the communi...
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.
I may be drunk by morning but that will not do any good. I shall take the train to Paris anyway. The train will be the same, the people, struggling for comfort and, even, dignity on the straight-backe...