“…Maybe it’s the fault of our language but dreams are innocent and pictorial. Then let our dreams speak for us side by side, leg over leg, an electroencephalographic kiss flashing blue movies from temple to temple, as we lie gagged… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children know it… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
“Fornicating is like parenting: no matter how you do it, you have the guilty sense that somewhere other people are doing it more correctly.” — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work than I can think of than taking… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
“we who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share
