Eleanor Clark
If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.Collection: Weed
The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.Collection: Fresh Start
Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.Collection: Luxury
Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.Collection: Abortion
Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.Collection: Rome
It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.Collection: Party
Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.Collection: Dog
How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.Collection: Confusion
Shame can be self-indulgence too.Collection: Self
Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.Collection: Home
The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.Collection: Girl
Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.Collection: Color
To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.Collection: Artist
Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.Collection: Love Life
I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.Collection: Writing
Rome is everybody's memory.Collection: Memories