They’d scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

They love me like a pack of wolves.Ernest

Love resides in my heart, but you are the one who tore apart and you are still blaming my heart for not keeping quiet about it

Universal emptiness is mere concept.The fact is, there was never emptiness.

The moment you learn the lesson, the test will be over.

For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.

There's only one head bigger than Tony Greig's - and that's Birkenhead

Make sure that when you agree with everything that's being said and when you feel passionate about your future, you take it into your hands. You do something.

In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.