I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.
Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner’s manual.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
Truth is most beautiful undraped.
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. (Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)
Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells.
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
