She wanted to kiss the hesitation of his throat.
Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
Misery is a no U-turns, no stopping road. Travel down it pushed by those behind, tripped by those in front. Travel down it at furious speed though the days are mummified in lead. It happens so fast on...
Like most people, when I look back, the family house is held in time, or rather it is now outside of time, because it exists so clearly and it does not change, and it can only be entered through a doo...
It is always a mistake to argue with a librarian.
If you're a hero you can be an idiot, behave badly, ruin your personal life, have any number of mistresses and talk about yourself all the time, and nobody minds. Heroes are immune. They have wide sho...
I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
I was in danger of drowning, and nobody lost at sea worries about whether the spar they cling to is made of elm or oak.
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the tw...
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. That is why we invent stories, I said. And what if we are the story we invent? He said.
He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil.
Every new beginning prompts a return.
Every day in my consultancy, I meet men and women who are out of their minds. That is, they have not the slightest idea who they really are or what it is that matters to them. The question 'How shall...
Eating was easy. Thinking was hard.
And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.
And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?
A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?
And what is memory but a rope slung across time?
There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together.Forgiveness unblocks the future." (p.225)
Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture