I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on.Babes, he told her. You're dead.That's one of those aspects, obviously.
I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.
I remember my own childhood vividly … I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them.’ Maurice Sendak,
I remember my own childhood vividly . . . I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them. MAURICE SENDAK, IN CONVERSATION WITH ART SPIEGELMAN,THE NEW YORKER,...
I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible. Bad dreams I can cope with. They're just nightmares, and the end eventually. I wake up. The terrible dreams are the good dreams. In my terrib...
I miss you', he admitted. 'I'm here', she said. 'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here, when you're just a ghost of the past or a dream from another life, it's easier the...
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me...
I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.
I have always felt, he said, that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats
I have always felt, he said, that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.
I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries.I'm tired of mysteries.Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things collapsed. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or mome...
I cried until I was all cried out.
I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win.
I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute...
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doe...
I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I ha...
I am not scared of bad people, of wicked evildoers, of monsters and creatures of the night. The people who scare me are the ones who are certain of their own rightness.
I am not scared of bad people, of wicked evildoers, of monsters and creatures of the night. The people who scare me are the ones who are certain of their own rightness. The ones who know how to behave...