Quotes About Expression

Smile girls, you'll look so much prettier. So I'll damn well decide for myself when I'm ready to smile.

I did. Some truths feel like they'll kill you if you say them out loud.

The woman rolled her eyes so loud I could hear it.

My head was just circling things, so I had to pull out all those squirming thoughts and nail 'em to the paper.

Ideas are sphincters. Every asshole has one.

And do you have opinions that John Locke didn't write first?

He had never really mastered English, but he'd studied enough to have a healthy fear of its random severity, the senseless brutatlity of its conjugations; it was unpredictable, like a cross-bred dog.

That's why people write books and stories, no doubt, to leave some impression behind, to share a sense of the beauty and pain. This

All art is personal. Otherwise, what's the point?

He had never really mastered English, but he'd studied enough to have a healthy fear of its random severity, the senseless brutality of its conjugations; it was unpredictable, like a cross-bred dog.

You had to write it, and he had to play it, and I'm just so grateful I got to see it.

Oh, the things she would say if she could--but it's a minefield of courtesies and manners, this dying business.

If you want to make art, go get a job at the Loov-rah.

Ideas are sphincters. Every asshole has one. Your take is what counts.

If I looked like you, Debra, I'd masturbate all the time

Words and emotions are simple currencies. If we inflate them, they lose their value

Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of Society, such that their very a- or immorality is what makes their art artistic rather than academic.

Unless we are very young or lifelong fools, we do not look to artists --- or their biographers --- for our role models. Their work is enough.

Whites always have to watch what they say. Blacks do not. Black comedians, for instance, can tell jokes about white people right to their faces, and whites are expected to laugh. Thank goodness for black comedians. If not for them, no one would be able to point out the occasional absurdities of black culture. If a white person tried, he would be off the air quicker than you could say "Kramer from Seinfeld.

My grandfather said white people can't exist without speaking. He said they're all just imitations of each other, so it's like they have to speak to distinguish themselves.

Like, you just did not expect to feel this way but you do, and it's what writers for centuries have called "melancholia" but because you don't read books, your language is limited.

That's the thing about music. You get to make it mean whatever you need it to mean.

you're just....You're everything His words are perfect, but the tone in his voice is not right. Wistful. Apologetic.

What he did do was reach the driver's side door and throw a hand up in the air, punching the night sky twice. And under the fuzzy light from the moon, she could see him smile.