There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, t...
Life should be touched, not strangled.
There is no cause for nostalgia save the good and life-enhancing nostalgia for the present.
They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hug...
We're all fools, said Clemens, all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorr...
No aflijamos a los hombres con recuerdos. Que olviden. Quememos, quemémoslo todo. El fuego es brillante y limpio.
Holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
The crickets were listening. The night was listening to her. For a change, all of the far summer-night meadows and close summer-night trees were suspending motion; leaf, shrub, star, and meadow grass...
People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person.
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change so...
How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.
I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.
Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them...
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy,Something's missing!
You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead
I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I fee...
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