Envy isn’t always green; it’s often black and white!" (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013)
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
Busy doesn't mean better. I have never envied a busy person – the one who likes to point out their busy lives to others.
Envy Adams: You just headbutted my boyfriend so hard he burst.
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
An envy of that one consummate part Swept me, who mock. Whether I laugh or weep, Some inner silences are at my heart.
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project, to people, to a family, you think of nothing else for weeks and months, then suddenly it's over, it's perpetual...
We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you’re not thinking in words anymore, but in colors, in smells, in waves of memory. Right what you care about. Don’t write one more word you don’t care a...
Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me.
I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.
