No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.
I'd mortgage any house for art.
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.
You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development.
At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.