38930 Quotes & Sayings

I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another's way like this. — Alison Bechdel

I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex. — Robert Wilson

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death. — Paul Theroux

My great quandary was what coat to wear and which books to bring. — Patti Smith

All that is mere
rationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnance
and terror) is in the person who admits there can be angels but
denies there can be devils. The superstition is in the person who
admits there can be devils but denies there can be diabolists. — G.K. Chesterton

The function of this school is custodial. It's here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station. — William Gaddis

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart. — Emile Zola