Sherwood Anderson Quotes

When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.

I care about looking into someone's eyes and finding out who they are.

Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.

I want somebody to hear my song and say, 'You know, man, I've been through that.'

Things that feel super personal actually feel really universal. It's sort of the more you really identify something specific within yourself, the more people connect to it because ultimately we are all connected in some way.

I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.

If two people are able to communicate their feelings without words you know it's true love

You're a library of me.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim 'You know exactly what I mean!' depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.

After I perform 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend,' it takes a lot out of me emotionally; and, at the end of it, I feel like I know the audience and the audience knows me. It's this weird unspoken bond that we'll kind of always have with each other.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

When you work with people for a long time, you start to sense what they are thinking without having to communicate explicitly.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

I definitely, really appreciate that quality that humans like to show constantly, even without saying anything, that they're with you and they're processing something.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

I'm always amazed at how records can make you feel like somebody else understands you.

She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.

Soul Alone by Hannah Baker I meet your eyes you don't even see me You hardly respond when I whisper hello Could be my soul mate two kindred spirits Maybe we're not I guess we'll never know My own mother you carried me in you Now you see nothing but what I wear People ask you how I'm doing You smile and nod don't let it end there Put me underneath God's sky and know me don't just see me with your eyes Take away this mask of flesh and bone and See me for my soul alone

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.