here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyon...
Can you stand on your legs?” Sydelle Pulaski asked. “Can you walk at all?” People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered them to his parents behind his back. “N-n-no. Why?” “What better disguise for a thief or a murderer than a...
People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates y...
Westereners often think that the East is one vast Buddhist temple, which is rather like thinking the West is one vast Carthusian monastery. If the [Western people who like Buddhism] were to visit the East, he'd certainly experience many new things, b...
Karma: I know I've seen this man someplace before. Artie (as McGuffey): Considering some of the places I frequent lady that's a comprising remark! Wild Wild West TV Season 1 Night of the Flaming Ghost
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.
Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme!
When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.
Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.
In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.
I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.
I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.
