“Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.” SeemsReadingSleepClearWifeNewspapersRight PlaceSleeping With Someone Book:Stepping Westward Source: Stepping Westward
“Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.” PeopleIfsFeelingsMovingYoungSexSleepMoralityGuiltyDecencyMoving AwayFeeling GuiltyNot SleepingSleeping With Someone Author:Margaret Mead
“Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain coffee shop, or stared obsessively at an old picture; who hasn't toiled over every word in a letter, taken four hours to write a two-sentence email, watched the phone praying it will ring; who doesn't lay awake at night sick with the image of her sleeping with someone else?” WritingPersonsTwoSometimesNightCertainHoursSleepTakenFourCrazyPrayingLettersSickLaysPhonesSentencesDrivenCoffeeRingsBlockAwakeShopsEmailCoffee ShopAwake At NightOld PictureSleeping With Someone Author:Jess Walter
“I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope there’s mystery and poetry in your life — not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.” KnowsNightSleepAliveMysteryFeetLike YouPatternsSincereAgain And AgainOne You LoveSomeone You LoveWakes YouSleeping With Someone Author:Eileen Myles
“As a producer, you can't break up w/your own project. It's like sleeping with someone that you don't like... Forever.” SleepBreakForeverProjectsProducersSleeping With Someone Author:Nina Jacobson