It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.
I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.
I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers.
Fashion is intoxicating, and it plays a part in all of our everyday lives. A lot of people use it as a form of escape, of realising a fantasy, and in some ways that becomes an unobtainable norm.
He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,
The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
In its purest form, a union becomes part of our very essence. And when that bond is broken, our essence is forever changed.
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.
Forms come and go. You, the quantum non-entity behind your human identity, comes nor goes.
Disappointment is like a death! In most cases both are not preplanned. They both come when they will come. Only that the former builds up experiences by the latter stops all form of experiences.
Give form to your vision. Disregard the fact that it appears to entail efforts. Express what you have inside and communicate it everywhere.
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804)
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.