14 quotes found
Writer · American · 1944
American writer (born 1944)
“Being in love is the only transcendent experience.”
“Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on”
“I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.”
“The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.”
“I couldn't writeor wouldn't write, at any rateunable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands”
“I couldn't write—or wouldn't write, at any rate—unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands”
“How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the wor...”
“It took so long to find you...and now I don't want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine. I can't help it--I'm old-fashioned. I...”
“I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.”
“Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.”
“Two days after his twelfth birthday, a fortnight before his father was jailed for debt, Charles Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory. There, in a rat-infested room by the docks, he sat fo...”
“The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or lat...”
“But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.”
“The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not ...”
