I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?"Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tendern...
You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.
What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
The reason I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly. I saw the day of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another wa...
She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just to think of it.
Is it the sea you hear in me?Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?
I write only becauseThere is a voice within meThat will not be still
I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry. A spark flew off Arnold and shook me, like a chill. I wanted to cry; I fel...
I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel...
I believe that there are people who think as I do, who have thought as I do, who will think as I do. There are those who will live, unconscious of me, but continuing my attitude, so to speak, as I con...
I am made, crudely, for success.
All night your moth-breathFlickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen.A far sea moves in my ear.
When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.