It was a sucker punch. But you know who gets hit by sucker punches? Suckers.
She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
I used to build dreams about you.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Republicans and Democrats agree that this should be done, $2. 5 trillion. I happen to think it's double that. It's probably $5 trillion that we can't bring into our country.
I only drink to steady my nerves. . . sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months.
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does seem to me to be a kind of animal impulse almost, a mammalian curiosity. For a reader to wonder about the autobiography in a fiction may be completely unavoidable and in fact may speak to the success of a particular narrative, though it may also speak to its failure.
There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.