The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child. – Jonathan Carroll
For an adult, eating alone at McDonalds is admitting a kind of defeat. – Jonathan Carroll
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. – Jonathan Carroll
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. Its so schizophrenic. – Jonathan Carroll
I dont mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing Riding in Cars With Boys, I wouldnt smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. Im the opposite. Inside my head Id be like, God, Ill explain to you at the end of shooting that Im not this person. – Drew Barrymore
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. – Lydia Maria Child