Michael Cunningham Quotes

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Michael Cunningham

I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.

Michael Cunningham

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

Michael Cunningham

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

Michael Cunningham

Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a fundamental human condition and not a mutation in the general design.

Michael Cunningham

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

Michael Cunningham

This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining.

Michael Cunningham

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

Michael Cunningham

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Michael Cunningham

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

Michael Cunningham