261 Quotes by Michael Cunningham

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life."I shrugged again, and smiled. "This is my life," I said. "It doesn't seem like the wrong one.

I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.