Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONGThe words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONGThe future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONGThey keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGDo you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGMy reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
ERICA JONGAmbivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGLife has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGI myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
ERICA JONG