Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.
The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.
Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.
If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.
All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.
I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.
There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food.
I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.
If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.
Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.
those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.
Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.
I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.
I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.
I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.
Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.
I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.
If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.
If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.
I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother.
There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves.
Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.
I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.
In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.
What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder?
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.
Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.
Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.
When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.