C. Elizabeth Quotes

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.

Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours.

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.

Very early in my life it was already too late.

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

And I want out of this life on drugs.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

For all of my life I have needed more.

I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

All I do is go to the movies.

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

...All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.

Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

I am the one rich thing that morn Leaves for the ardent noon to win; Grasp me not, I have a thorn, But bend and take my being in.

Killing time takes practice.

Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.

Time is the mother and mugger of us all.

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

The fearless make their own way.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

habit is our idea of eternity.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same; The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.