Linda Barnes

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If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.
- Linda Barnes
Collection: Warning
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I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.
- Linda Barnes
Collection: Half
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Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
- Linda Barnes
Collection: Singers
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Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art.
- Linda Barnes
Collection: Art
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Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.
- Linda Barnes
Collection: Mean
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Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.
- Linda Barnes
Collection: Latin
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Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.
- Linda Barnes
Collection: Guilt
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Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.
- Linda Barnes
Collection: Mom
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Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.
- Linda Barnes
Collection: Music
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I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me.
- Linda Barnes
Collection: Dating