Sitting on the train I watch the scenery speeding by, notice a cobweb in the top corner of the window, undulating with a gentle breeze I can’t feel. I lean back in my seat and take my book out of the carrier bag. Turning it over in my hand, it feel...
I know that whatever the complex origins of my own homosexuality are, there have been conscious choices I've made to indulge - and therefore to intensify, probably - my homoerotic inclinations. As I look back over the course of my life, I regret the ...
I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's m...
All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this role - grateful for the frisson of importance that comes with receiving important information. In recent years, however, I have noticed t...
When I met you — somehow you healed me. From the inside out, the outside in. We conquered fears together, we learned, we laughed, and we loved. I swear, you caused my heart to soar more in the past few months than it has in my entire existence. My ...
Buggin' Out: You almost knocked me down, man. the word is "excuse me." Clifton: Ah, excuse me, I'm sorry. Buggin' Out: Not only did ya knock me down, you stepped on my brand-new white Air Jordan's I just bought, and that's all you can say is "excuse ...
Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there they do not know me not even my most intimate acquaintance - I give into their feelings as though I were refraining from irritating a little ch...
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
Dogs own space and cats own time.
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.
A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.
I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.
Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.
The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.
Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.
What is life without this? which was why, in the end, it was I, and not her, who blurted out, not once, but many, many times, You'll kill me if you stop, you'll kill me if you stop, because it was also my way of bringing full circle the dream and the...