In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.
For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.
All actors are whores.They want only one thing: to seduce you.
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.
I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast a...
Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.
Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
لا يمكنني التورط مع رجل لا يهمه أمري وأمر طفلتي وحياتنا معًا، أكثر من اهتمامه بغريب ... لا يمكنني التورط مع رجل لا يهمه إن عاش أو مات! يرمي بحياته مثل الزهر وكأن لا قيمة لها
Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.
Why is the misery of a child so hilarious to other children?
The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't want to put restraints on robber barons-he might become one one day...
Silence has gathered around me like a thick, viscous water filling in a muddy footprint. Early evening, swollen sky like an eye that
See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be
Nothing is more lonely than fucking ‘good works.
Marianne laughed. But you can’t disappoint me! I don’t love you.
From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.
Freaky kids like us can’t ever be normal- Tyler says smugly- Our generation is some new kind of evolutionary development, my shrink says- Normal is just average, not cool. My latest diagnosis is A.P.M...
For once a truth is known it cannot be unknown, it can only be denied.
Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.