Maso Quotes & Sayings

The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other. — Carole Maso

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes. — Brad Dourif

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do. — Margaret Cho

And she smiles and she utters unearthly things and she utters not in any known language, in stars and pain, pulque she says I am devouring time and the earth — Carole Maso

But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars. — Carole Maso

I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could ... that your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend. — Abigail Adams

Here, we turn everything into art. — Carole Maso

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain
rigor and recklessness
simultaneously. — Carole Maso

You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me. — Carole Maso

If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering ... then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing? — Carole Maso

Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is coherent, trust that was the best writing advice I ever got (I got it from Carole Maso and I pass it on). It's true, and clearer and clearer as one grows and gains an improved sense of who one actually is (as versus who one was supposed to be). — Laura Mullen

We are powerful beyond imagination. — Lailah Gifty Akita

So little goes with the body of a man. So much is left behind. — Carole Maso

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with. — Martin Freeman

You were a painting by Matisse, but you took sleeping pills. — Carole Maso

I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed. — Jay Asher

Huddled around the fire of the alphabet... — Carole Maso

Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something. — Carole Maso

The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again. — Carole Maso

your head is flowers, your body the body of a deer, pierced — Carole Maso

In the calm violence of your being, desire. — Carole Maso

I believe in books. — Carole Maso

After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said
The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love.
And somehow I'm still alive. — Carole Maso

Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung! — Carole Maso

As if thought were not our most passionate, our most ardent aspect. — Carole Maso

Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is. — R.A. Torrey

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad. — Seneca The Younger

This book is an invention, an act of the imagination, and in no way should be mistaken for reality, the place where much good invention originates. — Carole Maso

I weep flowers, I weep song, I bleed — Carole Maso

I did what I thought was best.'
And so you kidnapped me,' she said bitterly.
'If you recall I offered you the option of residing with my relatives. You refused.'
'I want to be independent.'
'One doesn't have to be alone to be independent.'
Victoria couldn't think of a suitable rebuttal to that statement, so she remained silent.
'When I marry you,' Robert said softly, 'I want it to be a partnership in every sense of the word. I want to consult you on matters of land management and tenant care. I want us to decide together how to raise our children. I don't know why you are so certain that loving me means losing yourself. — Julia Quinn

It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale. — Carole Maso

One loves art more than life; it's better than life, don't you think, Ali? It doesn't disappoint so," she sighed. "It's not so frightening," she said, her eyes filled with terror. — Carole Maso

How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is. — Carole Maso