Quotes by : Mary Karr

Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curious....

If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's....

I lock all my scaredness down in my stomach until the fear hardens into something I hardly notice. I....

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into....

A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.

Slurping these spirits is soul preparation, a warped communion, myself serving as god, priest, and congregation.....

Standing in the shower, I feel something on the back of my leg that turns out to be my ass.

If we didn't read people who were bastards, we'd never read anything. Even the best of us are at least....

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off....

Joy, it is, which I’ve never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because....