Quotes by : Lydia Millet

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

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....

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

What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches it wears....

Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have....

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really....

I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald....

I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a distance.....