Slowly. Very slowly, sliding my nails along the entire length of the hair. Ah. The satisfactions were immense, incalculable. All that powder flying off of me! The storms, the blizzards, the whirlwinds...
Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin.
Quand on me demande pourquoi je fume, je réponds que c'est parce que j'aime tousser.
Once a man begins to recognize himself in another, he can no longer look on that person as a stranger.
Lo que realmente me asombra no es que todo esté derrumbado, sino la gran cantidad de cosas que todavía siguen en pie.
Little by little, as you came to know her better in the weeks that followed, you discovered that eye to eye on nearly everything of any importance. Your politics were the same, most of the books you c...
Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land.
It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.
I'm saying you'll never know if you made the wrong choice or not. You would need to have all the facts before you knew, and the only way to get all the facts is to be in two places at the same time--w...
I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.
He realized that for Ponge there was no division between the work of writing and the work of seeing. For no word can be written without first having been seen, and before it finds its way to the page...
Fuck Edison and his goddamned lightbulb.
Everything solid for a time, and then the sun comes up one morning and the world begins to melt.
But if these unavoidable separations cause you a measure of pain, they also increase your longing for her, and perhaps that isn’t a bad thing, you decide, for you spend your days in the thrall of brea...
Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.
As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out.
Cannot possibly know who you are, you imagine that she is suspicious of all young people-as a matter of principle- and therefore what she sees when she looks at you is not you as yourself but you as y...
قد تمكن من الإبقاء على مسافة تفصله عن الحياة لكي يتجنب الانغمار في جريانها وسرعة أشيائها.
سيشعرك بأنه ما من شيء يستفزه، وأنه لا يحتاج لأي شيء يقدمه هذا العالم. رجل بلا شهية.
You both love Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Hawthorne and Melville, Flaubert and Stendahl, but at that stage of your life you cannot stomach Henry James, while Gwyn argues that he is the giant of giants, t...