Powerlessness famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.’ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me naked—

  • I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

  • We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.

  • Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.

  • For reasons that I don't fully understand, Twitter is a place where I don't feel ashamed to say my most shameful thoughts.

  • Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.

  • If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

  • Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.

  • The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

  • My music comes from my emotion, always.