My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.
In a very grim view of this, there are lives that are going to be lost because patients won't get access to these drugs.
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.