The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him and when he is compelled to exist as it were by his own inner light.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.

No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

Even when our children are still young and defenseless, we feel intimations of their departure. We find ourselves staring at them with nostalgia, wistful for the person they're about to no longer be.

Meeting you was not the first day of the rest of my life

Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

It's annoying when people confuse you with the character.

I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.