John > John's Quotes

“I think with my blood.”
― Cate Marvin, Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

“No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.”
― Nancy Friday, My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies

“You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.”
― Denise Levertov

“In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shared.
Black silk, shelter me.
I need
more of the night before I open
eyes and heart
to illumination. I must still
grow in the dark like a root
not ready, not ready at all.”
― Denise Levertov

“It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.”
― Denise Levertov

“There comes a time when only anger is love.”
― Denise Levertov, To Stay Alive

“I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.
When the world in its entirety,
and all that you hold sacred advise you
against it: love me still more.
When rage fills you and has no name: love me.
When each step from your door to our job tires you--
love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.
Love me when you're bored--
when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,
or more pathetic, love me as you always have:
not as admirer or judge, but with
the compassion you save for yourself
in your solitude.
Love me as you relish your loneliness,
the anticipation of your death,
mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.
Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--
and if there is none to recall--
imagine one, place me there with you.
Love me withered as you loved me new.
Love me as if I were forever--
and I, will make the impossible
a simple act,
by loving you, loving you as I do”
― Ana Castillo, I Ask the Impossible

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“Better alone than badly accompanied.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City