Being unprepared heightens nerves.
It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.
We are living in a world in which we don't give the young enough reason to live. The temper and the lyrics of a lot of punk music and so on is very, life sucks and then you die, sort of theory. I feel life is cheaper and death is more attractive now than it was when I was an adolescent, as I remember. Suicide was a personal pathology when it was committed. There was no society approval of it, like there certainly is in Palestine and some quarters of Iraq.
Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?
Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.
What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.
The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics, in art
We have to have strong borders. We have to keep the drugs out of America.