A woman relinquishes her unfettered right to control her own body when her actions cause the conception of a baby

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

You can only write well, what you have experienced.

Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?

Everything turns, rotates, spins, circles, loops, pulsates, resonates, and repeats.

When tended the right way, beauty multiplies.

But when it comes time to decide your fate, they'll sign you on the line right next to Satan. Cause' they don't care about us. They just use us up.

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.

... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.