Quotes About Boundaries

kids are like pissing cats or burrowing moles, marking off land within land, each section with its own rules, beliefs, laws of engagement.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

The fact is if we followed the history of every little country in this world-in its dramatic as well as its quiet times- we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or to apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming. Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?

Well, we can say that Aimee lives in her bubble, he said, interrupting me, and so does your friend and, by the way, so do you. It's possible that it's like this for everyone. The size of the bubble is different, this is all. And perhaps the thickness of the--what do you call this in English?--skin--film. The thin layer on a bubble.

Oh my God — Fern — please! Stop talking like that! I don't want your heart! I don't want to be responsible for anybody else's heart. For anybody else's anything!' He looked confused: 'A peculiar idea. Once you're alive in this world, you're responsible.

Mum, you just said it yourself: you can't save everybody. She nodded several times and brought a napkin to her damp cheeks. That's true, she said. Very true. But at the same time, can't you always do more?

My skirts aren't a theater curtain for you to peep through," she hissed. "Impatient for the show to begin," he answered, unrepentant.

Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon—for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you—and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her.

She had an inside and outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

The theory behind our [Negro] tactics: The white man is always trying to know into somebody else's business. All right, I'll set something outside the door of my mind for him to play with and handle. He can read my writing but he sho' can't read my mind. I'll put this play to in his hand, and he will seize it and go away. Then I'll say my say and sing my song.

I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

I don't think I have the right to give someone advice when I don't know them.

Debra Stephenson and I are nothing more than friends and have a close working relationship - we certainly have not had an affair.

Just because many of my friends happen to be male it doesn't mean I'm having an affair with them.

I want to say that our shows are safer-spaces shows. Don't push anyone or affect anyone's space.

Nudity... I have to say I will never do it again.

You can only stay up all night so many times.

You can't be all things to all people.

I can't be all things to everyone.

Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.

Being professional makes it easier for me to say no, be honest, and not feel bad about it. However, that doesn't mean that you stay aloof.