Quotes About Expression

Our stories are the tellers of us.

What's he like?" "Thoughtful. Interesting. Compassionate." "These are English words for ugly.

Lawrence frowned. "I don't get you," he said. "If you understood how serious your situation is, I don't think you'd smile." I shrugged. "If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

Perhaps life just turned a person who tried harder into a person who felt they must write it on someone else's report.

I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

In the history of the world there was not one example of a man ever having written a satisfactory letter to a woman who mattered to him.

lips, excused from their color, had formed words relieved of their sound.

How imperceptible it had been, that transition in his facial expression, from deadly serious to seriously dead. Already those two faces were blurring together for me. My husband alive and my husband dead.

Yes but he is a man though, don't you see? You could knit one quicker than you can make one fit off-the-shelf.

I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.

Books lay on the floor in literary dunes.

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

Creativity is the auma of the universe, David. A good story, written with heart and feeling, can touch many people and raise their awareness of global issues.

singing the songs of the old masters. Fats Waller's 'Ain't That A Shame', Chuck Berry's

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Everybody plays electric guitar, thats why I decided to play bass!

yelled 'Where's my stick?

You're entertaining people whether they like you or hate you. You're entertaining their hatred. And if they like you, you're entertaining their love.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

Remembering what it felt like to be 20 overwhelmed by feeling and sensation, lost for words.

Better, perhaps, to dress like a whore around the clock and thus achieve a fully integrated personality.

According to Charles Olsen, the best poetry is a kind of schizophrenia. The poem does not "express" the poet's thoughts or feelings. It is "a transfer of energy between the poet and the reader".