128 Quotes by Lydia Millet

I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.

There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions.

The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing.

When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.

I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan.

At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.

I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.

I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line.

Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.