The theme of the book is simple: a man is dying: you feel him sinking throughout the book; his thought and his memories pervade the whole with greater or lesser distinction (like the swell and fall of uneven breathing), now rolling up this image, now...
I like pros, especially when it comes to tennis and rent boys” — and here I’m really wondering if the pun on prose consolidates Bruce’s feeling toward it versus poetry under the sign of sex, which Bruce sometimes pays for, in order to direct ...
There are portions of the sovereign people who spend most of their spare time and spare money on motoring and comparing motor cars, on bridge-whist and post-mortems, on moving pictures and potboilers, talking always to the same people with minute var...
It's a theme born out of the Christian faith rather than a pagan understanding of the universe. Both views agree that we human beings are small, frail, and limited in our ability to battle the forces of the world that seek to destroy us. In response,...
Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's pare...
Several themes describe misconceptions about mental illness and corresponding stigmatizing attitudes. Media analyses of film and print have identified three: people with mental illness are homicidal maniacs who need to be feared; they have childlike ...
There's memory clutter, which reminds you of an important person, achievement, or event from your past. I think memory clutter often gathers in the homes of people with some degree of depression. And then there's "I might need it one day clutter, in ...
To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it into the vast external cosmos, and away from all that introversion and introspection, that morbidly exaggerated prying into one's o...
Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key.
It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.
You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.
I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
Dream Song: In the heavens A noise, Like the rustling of the trees.
The hard way is my favorite way to learn.
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
Let the park live in you until it sings you a song.
You’re a princess. And princesses are never nervous. Princesses are brave and pretty and fearless.
World of harmony and peace I see it just over there Right there.
Limitations are possibilities . . . Opportunities to perceive ourselves Beyond our present selves . . .
Tolerence ought to be humanities community and knowledge should be an individuals goal.
