世界
"Writing is the art of listening to the whispers of the world."
"The world is made of stories, not atoms."
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
I used to think the world was broken down by tribes. Then I thought it was broken down by rich and poor. Then I thought it was broken down by stupid and smart. But I know now that it is broken down by people who are alive and people who are dead.
The world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
Fiction allows us to live multiple lives, to see through eyes not our own.
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
He said that the way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
The truth about the world is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is. A hat trick in a medicine show. A fevered dream. A trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent. An itinerant carnival. A migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
You have to believe in the reality of the world and the reality of the people in it.
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
To know this world is to love it, and to love it is to grieve for it.
The world is mostly right. The world is mostly wrong.
The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.
The best thing about being a writer is that you get to live in the world you create.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.
"The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion."
"Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world."