From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible yearnings, and their most soul-killing doubts...
He treated the stars as though they were love songs written to him by God.
Her secret, we would discover, was that once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journe...
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.
It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls...
My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.
Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.
Christ must do a lot of puking when he reflects upon the good works done in his name.
Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
I lit a cigarette and began puffing on it as I drank one quick beer after another. I was neither a drinker nor a smoker nor a fighter, but I had planned to be all three on this day.
I will take you down my own avenue of remembrance, which winds among the hazards and shadows of my single year as a plebe. I cannot come to this story in full voice. I want to speak for the boys who w...
It was a time in my life when many things bored me deeply and I hungered for beauty and those realms of pure elation granted to those who had the imagination to know what to look for and how to find i...
We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.
. . . I have come to revere words like democracy and freedom, the right to vote, the incomprehensibly beautiful origins of my country, and the grandeur of the extraordinary vision of the founding fath...
American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our li...
Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If...
But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived...
Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their b...
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