I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
Shame is pride's cloak.
In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen
I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.
But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.
One can fall in love and still hate.
I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
I think I have a lot of crazy layers.
I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It's very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.
It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion.
I love you as one loves certain dark things.
My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.
I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.
Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
