It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky...
A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.
Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg....
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
They shared a doom against which virtue was no defense
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
The blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you...
He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and g...
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?
I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable lov...
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be...
I believe in hanging. Just so long as I'm not the one being hanged.
Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.
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