He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…” “I’m pretty sure irony isn’t a deadly sin.” “I’m pretty sure it is.” “Lust,” she said. “Lust is ...
Sometimes what you think is true, what you think is safe and good, is actually evil in disguise. Evil is so enticing, so deceiving, that you don't know its evil until it's wrapped you up and caressed you as a lover. You gaze into its eyes, enraptured...
A child’s bond to her mother cannot be understated, and my bond with Helen was a ragged, baffling, disheartening, chaotic mess. I felt crazy, often, around my own mother. I grew up questioning what was normal, asking what reality was and wasn’t, ...
As of this writing, I am twenty-five years old. I have been alive for 307 months. Nine of those months were pretty terrible. But 298 of those months have been very good. I have been happy. I have been very blessed. Who knows how many more months I ha...
I gazed up as if I hadn't heard, but what I was thinking was, tell me more about the pretty girls. I was embarrassed for wanting it, it was base, what did pretty matter? I had thought that so many times with my mother. A person didn't need to be beau...
For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he h...
Lilac's moving, stirring as I shift away from her, and she rolls over with a little protesting noise, reaching sleepily after me. Then she begins to register the raindrops as they connect with her skin, and she sits up straight with a gasp. I'm busy ...
Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.
I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s.
I'm a one-woman man. Pretty much.
I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
I don't think I was ravishing, but I think I was pretty.
I think I look pretty decent in a tux.
I think we're all pretty odd.
I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.
My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.
Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool.
This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.
