The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.
Joyce Carol OatesBetrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.
Joyce Carol OatesWhy should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?
Joyce Carol OatesThe danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
Joyce Carol OatesWhoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?
Joyce Carol Oates