Roucou Quotes & Sayings

Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do
like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy. — Martin Amis

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story. — Daisy Berkowitz

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. — Emile Zola

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that. — Jon Foreman

My tongue had probably earned about 20 million Frequent Flyer Miles to rush my immortal impudent soul to a special torture chamber in purgatory — Dorothea Benton Frank

The typical modern has the look of the hunted. — Richard M. Weaver

I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion. — Jim Garrison

30 minutes is a long time to wait for a Valentine's date. — Jay Asher

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.' — Joe Namath

We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store windows, or just reach for the yellow pages and have them delivered. It is the same mindset at work, spreading in our world, and after a while this attitude can find nothing very special about anything or anybody, let alone whales. — Matthew Scully