But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don’t write should be stomped on.
Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.
Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
I think that it’s really important to go away and come back.
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that’s always very flattering.
How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia.
I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.
Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.
Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.
In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It’s feeble to be an object. What’s the point of being loved in return, I’d ask myself.
This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.
Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
But the idea that women can’t take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.