Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
You live your life at the time you live it – you don’t have much of an overview when what’s happening to you is still happening.
She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.
All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy.
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
There’s a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There’s a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.
With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it’s like to live in someone else’s shoes.
I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.