But needs must when the devil drives.
The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there.
She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
I think it’s one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I’d ever seen, that California sunshine.
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force.
Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.
The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he’s as cunning as he is ferocious; once he’s had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.