Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.
celebrate while you can
Much in our lives is chance.
The despairing soul is a rebel.
I love insult, it's always honest.
After love a formal feeling comes.
Every scar in my face is worth it.
Tragedy is the highest form of art.
The quiet people just do their work.
Writing is the most solitary of arts.
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
I am more or less reading all the time.
These are the moments for which we live.
It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.
None of the rest of my life figures here.
A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
The regional voice is the universal voice.
Acting is the loneliest profession I know.
There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.
I consider tragedy the highest form of art.
Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.
The best revenge is living well without you.
Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.
I never change, I simply become more myself.
My writing is full of lives I might have led.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
Death is just the last scene of the last act.
We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
I am always reading or thinking about reading.
Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.
Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.
Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.
Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.
I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.
I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.
There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty
I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.
Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.
When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.
[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.
Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.
When a marriage ends, who is left to understand it?
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
