Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great...
This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Ap...
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn't for our longing for these things, I doubt the novel or the short story would exist in its ...
Col. Hans Landa: [in French; subtitled] Monsieur LaPadite, I regret to inform you I have exhausted the extent of my French. To continue to speak it so inadequately would only serve to embarrass me. However, I've been lead to believe that you speak En...
Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine you are petting your cat, the same neurons in your brains are activated as if you were petting the actual cat. Our minds may k...
A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.
You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
Every society has the criminals it deserves.
Speak of evil, and you summon it.
What we can't speak, we say in silence.
I began with the desire to speak with the dead.
For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
Children and fools always speak the truth.
When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.
