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Joyce Carol Oates quote: " such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you..."
... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing. Joyce Carol Oates
Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I'm so stupid. Forget I just said that. "He needs a Band-Aid," I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding, love? Forget I said that too. I don't know what's wrong with me. James Patterson
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later developed) may weary me, but they don't hurt or humiliate. Impossible lovers can't cheat on us, or smile at us falsely, or be calculating in their caresses. They never forsake us, and they don't die or disappear. --The book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
John Updike quote: "Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to..."
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. John Updike
Douglas Adams quote: "He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he..."
He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house. Douglas Adams
Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost. Roberto Bolano
Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces. Jean Sibelius
Give me a shot to remember. And you can take all the pain away from me. A kiss and I will surrender. The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead. A light to burn all the empires. So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be. And I'm in love with all of those vampires. So you can leave like the sane abandoned me Gerard Way
Even when I'm alone I have real good company? dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships? and nice, jolly little times with people. L. M. Montgomery
Ouida quote: "I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and..."
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman. Ouida
As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I've never questioned the justification for resorting to force. That's why I supported Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia, which ended Pol Pot's regime, and Tanzania's invasion of Uganda in 1979, to oust Idi Amin. In both cases, those countries acted without U.N. or international approval—and in both cases they were right to do so. Jose Ramos-Horta
Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up so that it sounded more like itself. Nick Hornby
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not... Michel Foucault
I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors. Bjork
I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria. Marcel Duchamp

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