Quotes About Author

New Brunswick, New Jersey, where I had to cut off two of its feet to get it upstairs to my third-floor office at 16 Stratford Place. There, for all I know, it remains to this day.)

thought of writing a lesbian novel. I read a great deal of lesbian fiction and nonfiction, some by Marijane Meaker under one name or another. I'm sure I read them in part out of prurient interest, but that's why I initially read John O'Hara, James T. Farrell, and no end of fine writers.

This is what is meant by possession - to be passionately at war for the qualities in one another to contend for the treasures of each other's personalities. But how can such a war be anything but destructive and hopeless?

This world represents the promise of a unique happiness which we are not well-enough equipped to grasp.

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.

I refuse to give into the sad reflex of French envy because this envy paralyzes our country.

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?

The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks.

Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.

I don't know that I'm 'hangdog'. That suggests someone skulking around, unengaged. I'm not. I'm 'engaged', believe me. I have just got a slightly sad face.

I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.