Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
The writer has to be brave, I think.
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it, in ways we've never had to do before. We now have the job of forging our own evolutionary destiny, and being prime agents of the process of evolution here on Earth.
Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce. ' I can! You'll go to hell!
That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.