261 Quotes by Michael Cunningham

I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what’s already been set in motion.

Aspettavamo, senza particolare urgenza, di vedere se qualcuno ci avrebbe chiesto un altro tipo d’amore, quello più terrificante e travolgente.

The implication of this particular tale is: Trust strangers. Believe in magic.

Yeah, right, sweetheart, it’s a wing, I’m part angel, but trust me, the rest is pure devil.

If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark. And that only I can know, only I can understand my own condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too.

One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.

This, Barrett Meeks, is your work. You witness, and compile. You persevere.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for the lunch bell. I wish them well. They have, however, never been the subjects of novels, and in all likelihood, will never be.