“I suppose almost everyone who writes is afflicted some of the time by the suspicion that nobody out there is listening,”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
“I wonder if I'll ever be able to have what I like or if my tastes are too various to be sustained by one of anything.”
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“There's a school of wisdom about love that says the surest way to lose someone is to hold on to them too tightly -- as demonstrated over and over again by the split-ups of lovers, but also by parents and children. Although there it's more complicated by far. Lovers, initially strangers, become strangers again; the tie between parent and child pulls and twists for a lifetime, taking on the strangest forms.”
― Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
― Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
“He said, 'What do you want?' All I could think of was peeling the skin of a Valencia orange in bed on a bright morning with someone pulling me into the covers because they want to spend two or three minutes nestling before starting their day. So I said, 'Not much'.”
― Happy Hour
― Happy Hour
“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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