“ There’s a German term- heimweh, homesickness. It’s a powerful sensation, like a narcotic. A yearning from home, but for something more- a past self, perhaps. A lost self. When I first saw you on the s… Joyce Carol Oates
“ The gym cat appears to those who will die. He is our totem. This thought came to me a few weeks ago. I shared it with no one of course. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Mulheres eram especialistas em chorar, assim como os homens eram humilhados e impedidos de chorar. Mulheres eram purificadas pelo choro, assim como os homens eram maculados e manchados pelo choro. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Messes are made by people who want but don't know what they want, let alone how to get it. Joyce Carol Oates
“ It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what links us to the dead. At all times we can hear them calling to… Joyce Carol Oates
“ It was remarkable to Julia—(it did not hurt or offend her, but only amused her)—how Ryan’s family managed to take photographs or videos of themselves that excluded her. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Everything is entirely in Nature, and Nature is entire in everything. She has her center in every brute. —SCHOPENHAUER The Joyce Carol Oates
“ But this controversy did not involve the corporal who refused to give thought to what his life had become as a case. God did not think of a man as a case. For a case is to be solved—and a man cannot b… Joyce Carol Oates
“ But thinking it my duty to stretch the flayed skin of my childhood on some sort of skeleton of convention Joyce Carol Oates
“ At such rare times you can feel the electrically charged neurons of the prefrontal brain realigning themselves like iron fillings drawn by a magnet. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another pers… Joyce Carol Oates
“ A bully is one who forces you to laugh at his jokes, even if they are not jokes. That is how you know he is a bully. A Joyce Carol Oates
“ I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West… Joyce Carol Oates
