Quotes by : Lydia Millet

…suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered,....

The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know,....

It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the....

In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned....

One man’s weakness is another man’s mercy.

The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy....

Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.

We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity....

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might....

There was the honour and austerity of money as he walked through art galleries, as he saw around him....