My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.
on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or that they fall in love at first sight. . . Conceive the wildest improbabilities. Have it that the depths of their beings are thrilled at accosting each other in slang. Tangle them suddenly in a swift embrace or a brotherly kiss. Do whatever you like.
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.
if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.
Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.
This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.