Quotes About Expression

I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.

I'm a creative man so my fears are greater than most.

Expression requires freedom. It seems to me that no matter what you say in this world, someone will be offended.

For poetry, like life, is its own justification

Writing always came naturally to me. It was like speaking, but easier. Actually, a lot easier.

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

The Bible, the liturgy, creeds, doctrinal pronouncements and personal testimony—these are all simply diverse symbolic expressions of the one revelation of God in Christ.

If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You're a human being, with a unique story to tell, and you have every right. If you speak with passion, many of us will listen. We need stories to live, all of us. We live by story. Yours enlarges the circle.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

I've always known that there's more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn't regret that he isn't more fully understood?

Why be normal? What's the point?

Wie willst du das wissen?«, fragte ich sie. »Du siehst mich doch gar nicht.« »Du hast geschnaubt. Wenn du auf diese Art schnaubst, siehst du immer dämlich aus.«

I am the homosexual you cannot be proud of

You will see at precisely what moment the writer ceases to think of his character as an instrument to be manipulated and think of him as someone with whom he has fallen in love. For it is always, must always be, a matter of love.

Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.