Occupation: Author Birth: September 17, 1935 Death: November 10, 2001
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma..
I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all..
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing..
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary.".
I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this ….
Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one….
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing..
They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework..
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery..
You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see..
He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him….
We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when it ….
Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren….
His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a ….
The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it..
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense..
turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles ….
The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimula….
For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; you….
There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what..
What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of ….