Now that you are living on such intimate terms with her, Gwyn has emerged as a slightly different person... She is both funnier and more salacious than you imagined, more vulgar and idiosyncratic, mor...
No one can ever amount to anything in this life without someone else to believe in him.
For the fact is that it takes a great deal of self-confidence for a person to poke fun at himself, and a person with that kind of self-confidence is rarely a fool or a bungler.
Bluntly and quietly, in a series of simple, forthright sentences, she dismantled the architecture of unhappiness that had been growing up around us for the past several days. She was calling from the...
As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out
That once you throw your life to the winds, you will discover things you had never known before, things that cannot be learned under any other circumstances.
I chanced upon these words from a letter by Van Gogh: Like everyone else, I feel the need of family and friendship, affection and friendly intercourse. I am not made of iron, like a hydrant or a lamp...
Knowing now that the job of writing was as much about removing words as adding them,
You realize now that she turned to you as a form of consolation, to give her life a meaning and a purpose it was otherwise lacking. You were the beneficiary of her unhappiness, and you were well loved...
Words were no longer simply words, but a curious codes of silence, a way of speaking that continually moved around the thing that was being said. As long as we avoided the real subject, the spell woul...
We are not where we are, he finds, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doub...
The world wasn’t real anymore. Everything in it was a fraudulent copy of what it should have been, and everything that happened in it shouldn’t have been happening. For a long time afterward, Ferguson...
The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.
The gods looked down from their mountain and shrugged.
The best thing about being fifteen is that you don’t have to be fifteen for more than a year.
That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it,...
That work was what appealed to him most about their conversations.Tom liked having to think fast, and he found it invigoratingto push his mind in unaccustomed directions for a change,to be forced to s...
Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.
Speak now before it is too late, and then hope to go on speaking until there is nothing more to be said.
So weak, so little left, time running out. I will be robbed of my old age. I try not to feel bitter about it, but sometimes I can't help myself. Life is shit, I know, but the only thing I want is more...