Literary Quotes
He takes a draw on a cigarette, blows out a smoky ghost. I reach to catch the phantom in my hands, but it eludes me. I've been trying to catch a ghost for as long as I can remember.
Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.
I’m looking for the exit.”“The Last Exit to Brooklyn, will it be?”“Er, no! Just the way out.”From "One man in his time
It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be killed.
He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics.
He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.
I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.
Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.
Great literary works are not measured by the number of words, but by the impact they create.
The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.