Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world.
There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.
It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.
I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.
I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.
And then, when there is nothing else between us but love, we can begin to find a way to truly be together.
Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof.
There's no sense in trying to be or look like anyone other than yourself.
To be mature you have to realize what you value most. . . Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.
Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it.