The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
thinking about tracking. . . . Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialclass was established for the rest of your life.
I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.
Where do dreams come from?…they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.
Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.
they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.
When will women not be compelledto view their bodies as science projects,gardens to be weeded, dogs to be trained?When will a woman ceaseto be made of pain?
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done
We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.
It’s the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody’s earth.
An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it’s modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we’re not human… They don’t hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.
A little man in a threadbare coat spoke up for the poor as if he really knew what he was talking about. The women with the flowers threw them down for him. “That’s Robert Speer,” one said. “Something like that. He’s our man.
They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.
Troubles cured you salty as a country ham smoky to the taste thick-skinned and tender inside.
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
Life is the first gift love is the second and understanding the third.
If you want to be listened to you should put in time listening.
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it’s modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.
Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.