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  • I buy Coppertone Water Babies in abundance at the airport, SPF 60 or 70. I like being pale; I like looking like a creature from the dead world. I like looking like a ghost.

  • I look at some of the old villains in the Disney movies. If you really listen, you can hear some of the villains or some of the supporting characters, they use the voices over and over because they were so versatile in the way that they performed on voiceovers.

  • like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

  • Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

  • Opinion is the death of knowledge.

  • During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

  • This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

  • I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.

  • If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

  • Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

  • When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

  • As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

  • In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.

  • Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

  • Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

  • You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

  • Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

  • Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

  • Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

  • I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

  • I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

  • The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

  • The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

  • I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

  • I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.

  • sex is like sandwiches, there has to be something in between.

  • it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

  • For a poet, style is the only morality.

  • What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

  • Love is all there's time for.

  • Misogyny is the death of the heart.

  • As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

  • ... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

  • There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

  • It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

  • It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.

  • writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

  • TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

  • TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

  • Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

  • movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

  • Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

  • Consumerism is our national religion.

  • Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

  • Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

  • Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

  • High school was great when it ended.

  • Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

  • I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

  • We do what we can. The results are none of our business.

  • Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

  • History repeats herself.

  • Hope is a dream deferred.

  • if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

  • Longing is all that lasts.

  • married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

  • All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

  • ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.

  • a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

  • Integrity pays, but not in cash.

  • One parody is worth a thousand polemics ...

  • Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

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