I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
How we dress is, as far as I can tell, the only inescapably public choice that we have. People don't need to… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Mizzy has wandered into the garden. Carole looks contemplatively at him, says, "Lovely boy." "My wife's insanely younger brother. He's one of those kids… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“How often since then has she wondered what might have happened if she'd tried to remain with him; if she’d returned Richard's kiss on… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“...a full week of their mother's quiet fury over the fun they don't seem to be having and their father's dogged attempts to provide… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become? — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“And yet, it gives Peter nothing. Not now. Not today. Not when he needs... more. More than this well-executed idea. More than the shark… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
The worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“She's had a long life. Now she's going to the Lord." "Frankly it creeps me out a little when you say things like that,"… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
Any other vexations to report?" he asks. "I love the word 'vexations.'" "It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
