147 Quotes by Glenn Haybittle

I suspect nothing has more power to alienate one from the wellsprings of all one's creative vitality than being trapped in a loveless marriage. Probably they are the people who no longer feel special, the unhappily married.

To hold an object that belonged to someone you have loved and lost alters for a moment the weight of your hand and then the weight of your entire body.

The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.

Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.

The snow, the effect of concealment and secrecy it creates, makes him think of the brutality of the wartime legislation to forbid and violently extract secrets. It is as if the hushed white landscape is showing how sacrosanct are our secrets, how much of our vitality is bound up in them.

She is accustomed to studying faces. Usually what she seeks in them is inspiration. Today she looks for signs of malice and treachery.

Males aren't trained to proof-read their naked bodies the way females are.

Landscapes of fields and small clusters of buildings hurtle past outside like fragments of songs never sung in their entirety.

Hiding compels a heightened intimacy with oneself.