Настоящее дерьмо (такова была мантра Мо) - это голуби, а не их дерьмо.Развод - это когда отбираешь то, что тебе больше не нужно у тех, кого ты больше не любишь.
Though it was such a bizarre world, filled only with the echoing voices of people who had apparently already agreed with each other.
Then after a few miles you arrived at a new idea, that wealth and morality are in essence the same thing, for the more money a person had, then the more goodness—or potential for goodness—a person pos...
Or at least I felt that within the lie there was a deeper truth.
It’s about phrasing, and being delicate, and getting just the right feeling from a song, the soul of it, so that something real happens inside you when a man opens his mouth to sing, and don’t you wan...
Has never been hard for me to pay my taxes because I understand it to be the repaying of a large, in fact, an almost incalculable, debt.
For any daughter of hers was to do more than just survive—as my mother had—she was to thrive, learning many unnecessary skills, like tap dancing.
For a great dancer has no time, no generation, he moves eternally through the world, so that any dancer in any age may recognize him.
Fiction can’t be written to comply with winning arguments.
You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.
You need a certain head on your shoulders to edit a novel, and it’s not the head of a writer in the thick of it, nor the head of a professional editor who’s read it in twelve different versions. It’s...
White free speech and white creative freedom have been founded on the constraint of others, and are not natural rights.
When the fat lady is singing. When the walls are falling in, and the sky is dark, and the ground is rumbling. In that moment our actions will define us. And it makes no difference whether you are bein...
When I find myself sitting at dinner next to someone who knows just as much about novels as I do but has somehow also found the mental space to adore and be knowledgeable about opera, have strong opin...
Well, they got that habit from us. We always wanted to be seen to be right. To be on the right side of an issue. More so even than doing anything. Being right was always the most important thing.
We felt we had our place in time. What person on the earth doesn’t feel this way?
Uno dei più grandi sogni di autenticità dell’avanguardia è questa possibilità di diventare criminali, di condividere la sorte di Genet e John Fante, dei freak, dei perduti, degli emarginati. (Con la n...
Unlike my mother, he had no anxiety in connection with her, he found her single-minded dedication to her dancing sweet, and also, I think, admirable- it appealed to his work ethic- and it was very cle...
They are like complex musical scores from which certain melodies can be teased out and others ignored or suppressed, depending, at least in part, on who is doing the conducting. At this moment, all ov...
There is a mania in the playground for grabbing vaginas.