Quotes About Experience

His old riot of black hair was now a translucent scrim of white, but his blue eyes still threw sparks.

Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relatively weak, sluggish body. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Billie Burke

To be an artist was to interpret experiences for others. The more a person turned in to the charismatic forces in life or in a piece of art the more that person lived in the ecstasy of energy we call life

The first time I had sex with a man for money, it was September.

To live . I'm not endorsing it.

reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

I've been in love and it doesn't last. And when it's over, it's hell for a while. And then one discovers that life goes on. Eventually, one falls in love again. This pattern repeats itself until one is too jaded to believe in it anymore, or too old for all the upheaval.

It was a little thing, she knew, but life was all sorts of little things added up.

My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

What was the point of giving children freedom to experiment and fail, if one then turned it all into a tiresome object lesson?

John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike doesn't know dick about what it's like to be a homicide cop in Baltimore.

he began, over dinner at Cantler's, a much beloved but out-of-the-way restaurant near

How many times is a woman allowed to defend herself? In Polly's experience, not even once.

Laura Lippman

Where are you getting your material—Portnoy's Complaint?" "What does an Irish lass named Monaghan know from Portnoy and afikomens? I imagine you reading James Joyce and drinking

feeding her raw oysters at Charleston, or sharing the gingerbread with lemon chiffon sauce at Bicycle.

She also was used to people who couldn't tell a story for anything, who thought the beginning went about as far back as Genesis, and that every tangential thought, every narrative cul de sac, must be explored en route.

I'd love to see him lay a single strip on her white back. It would be the most potent lesson either of them ever got.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

Life perfects us, if we let it.