Quotes About Ben

I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.

A novel quite possibly won't be good and, even more possibly, will have not-good parts, but at least it won't shape-shift on you; at least you can say that you're halfway through and know that this maps onto some clear, visualizable chunk of narrative.

Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

3PO advised, "I suggest a new strategy, Artoo-Detoo. Let the Wookiee win." R2-D2 answered with a surprised beep. Chewbacca chortled happily. When Ben felt somewhat recovered, he resumed watching Luke's practice with the remote. Luke's eyes followed the remote with intense concentration, but his movements were stiff, not relaxed. Ben said

Whenever I'm worried about anything," said this guy Ben, "I like to think about China. China has a population of like two billion people, and not one of them even remotely cares about whatever you think is so important." I acknowledged that this was a great comfort. Svetlana

When she was small and at home on a rare sick day, she'd never quite trusted that her classroom would be there, with the day and its lessons going on, if she wasn't. "Solipsism": nine letters. Of course Ben had known the word.....It was how the rest of the world felt sometimes now that she was someone's mum. As if almost everywhere and everything else had disappeared. Sometimes, that wasn't so bad.

America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she has propelled ice cream, Dad was fond of commenting while standing with the freezer door open and inspecting every flavor of Ben and Jerry's, oblivious to the customers swarming around him, waiting for him to move.

Michael's generation—its history of fighting disease and bigotry—sometimes made him grumpier than Ben would like him to be, but he knew what he'd found in Michael: a gift for intimacy like none Ben had ever known.

Who's Sally Bowles?" asked Ben. I turned and looked at my younger, less theatrical half. "She used to be married to Ansel Adams." "You're kidding?" "Yes, I am," I said. Jake

Cathy looked to the staircase before following Ben to the living room. It didn't sound like anybody else was home. Didn't he say he lived with his parents? Didn't he say they were a little older? Needed his help around the house? It smelled like Ben needed a little help around the house.

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

'Reno 911: Miami!' is a terrible, terrible title, and all the reviews - good and mostly bad - nobody pointed out how stupid a title that was. But you can hardly come up with a sentence that's more awkward.

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

But . . ." Dominic floundered around for a bit before pointing at me accusingly. "You said that there's weird shit, but it normally turns out to have a rational explanation." "It does," said Beverley. "The explanation is a wizard did it.

It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater,

Psalm 73," said Postmartin. "The motto of the Spanish Inquisition." "Well, fuck me," said Seawoll. "I wasn't expecting them.

street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo,

Class-war evil supernatural black fungus. I love it.

He farted as I reached the inner door as a sign, I decided, of his respect. Alexander

Even to suggest such a thing stretches absurdity to the point of effrontery.

Morris being an old word for dance, by the way—it's amazing what you pick up on the job.

people who would furnish their home with the bleak minimalist style of a Scandinavian detective novel.