The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.
Little Maria: See how mine floats. [the Monster picks her up] Little Maria: No, you're hurting me! No!
Maria: Gretl, what happened to your finger? Gretl: It got caught. Maria: Caught in what? Gretl: Friedrich's teeth.
Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.
A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
The pianokeys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind
I don't know why, but the Bible always seems to come to me in my time of need, even with the exact words.
A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers herself to them most truly.
And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.
The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
