“We're the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, re...” — Jerome Charyn Quote

“We're the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, represent a kind of extended infantilism, beauties waiting for the big chance.”

“Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.”

“What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.”

“Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.”

“Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.”

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”