Anne Sexton Quotes

Being turned into a lizard can really mess up your day.

I think everybody's nuts.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

Turmoil stimulates.

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

Every day is bizarre.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Wars and revolutions cannot be prescribed and the circle of their influence determined in advance.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

You see the problem of an unstable White House from the outside and worry about it. But from the inside, it is 50 times worse.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.

I like wee arguments, I've never been into jokes. I'm more into strange things and madness and things escalating and things not really making sense.

When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can.

The first 'Interdimensional Cable' episode is amazing because it's filled with such absolute drunken nonsense.

Some people are just weird when you're on a plane - it's the same during a renovation. It stresses them out.

I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table.

You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the Eiffel Tower at night, being chased by ninja vampires

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.