We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.
Άρχισαν τα πηγαδάκια. Η Γκλόρια σέρβιρε το επιδόρπιο. Ο Ντιντιέ ακούμπησε το τσιγάρο του στην άκρη του πιάτου με τα αμυγδαλωτά, σκορπίζοντας στάχτες και τρίμματα από αμυγδαλωτά και επιμένοντας ότι ο Φ...
America was supposed to be a place ruined and homogenized by highways, that that was its unique character, crass and vulgar sameness.
I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
If there was no imperative, it was not love.
Whimsy is the answer to tears.
Silent people can be misleading, suggesting profundity and thoughtfulness where there may be none.
Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.
My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
We loved life more than the future.
He understood that this was the overseer's main skill, to recognize what was within human limits, but just barely. Within, but just barely was the optimum calibration, the unit of profit.
Charles Bukowski’s Factotum
I trusted the need for risk, the importance of honoring it.
[S]ympathy for people, without any sympathy for what caused their circumstances, [is] not real sympathy but sentimentality.
We should torture language to tell the truth.
These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - t...
The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.
It is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone.