I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.
If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.
Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.
I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.
I would really love to work with Clint Eastwood.
I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.
I would love to see McDonald's pay more money.
I would love to try action films.
There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.
Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.
There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.
If I was perfect then this would be easy...
Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
War would end if the dead could return.
No fundamentalist undercurrent ran through the national culture before the first war. Sufism had always been the predominant Muslim sect, and Wahhabism was a foreign, wartime import. A few times a year, Arab Wahhabis came through the village in searc...
...if we seek the permanence of an object as something existing from its own side, we discover something inexpressible. If we take three sticks and place them together in a certain way, they will all stand up. If each of the sticks could stand under ...
As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 in Meudon as a private secretary, turned away from the art nouveau-like, sensitized-atmospheric poetic approach of his early years to pursue a view of...
The last clear thought I have is of my grandmother’s rust-colored wall clock ticking away in the darkness of my apartment—my sanctuary where I dreamed and desired and hoped for goodness and love. I wonder how long that clock will tick without any...
I have always lusted after a sepia-toned library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and a sliding ladder. I fantasie about Tennessee Williams' types of evenings involving rum on the porch. I long for balmy slightly sleepless nights with nothing but th...
