Lonzi said the only thing worth loving was what was to come, and since what was to come was unforeseeable---only a cretin or a liar would try to predict the future---the future had to be lived now, in...
It is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone.
Seks is geen ruilhandel, het is een schenkeconomie.
I was not likely to join a cult. That was not the danger I felt in glimpsing the feet of the dead, the bucket from which they drank. It was the proven fact, in the photographed feet, that you could dr...
Later, Giddle’s response when I told her I was in love: Oh God, I’m so sorry. Love is awful. It ruins every normal thing, everything but itself. It makes you crazy and for nothing, because it’s so dis...
The point of the film....was about being a woman, about caring an not caring what happens to you. it was about not really caring.p.198
Looking at someone who is looking at you was a drug as strong as any other.
It wasn’t quite a romantic infatuation. There are levels of readiness. Young girls don’t entertain the idea of sex, their body and another’s together. That comes later, but there isn’t nothing before...
The important matter of small-town hair p.17
Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.
The thing about songwriting, John Dogg was saying to someone, is that you can address things obliquely, but no matter. You can’t get away from the content that is the essence of the form. All songs ar...
What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty of time to think about this later. I thought about it so much that the events of that eve...
We should torture language to tell the truth.
Δεν τον είχα φιλήσει αλλά ήξερα ότι θα γινόταν κι αυτό, και το ήξερε ότι το ήξερα, και υπήρχε κάτι σαν αμοιβαία χαρά σε τούτη την ολίσθηση προς το αναπόδραστο, κι ας μην ήξερα το όνομά του ή αν ο,τιδή...
You have time. Meaning don’t use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don’t rush to meet it. Be a conduit.
Save your freedom for a rainy day, someone had written on the bathroom wall at Rudy’s Bar in SoHo,
When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless...
You couldn’t hate someone who saw the world so differently.
La Mazière had met with El Extraño at a chicken-dinner-and-cockfight joint near the Havana airport, a place that proved even more vulgar than the concept had sounded.
Να γοητεύεσαι σημαίνει να θέλεις κάτι και συνάμα να ξέρεις, κάπου μέσα σου, όχι σε κάποιο εμφανές σημείο, ότι δεν πρόκειται να το αποκτήσεις.
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