Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Morally repugnant and tactically stupid are a lousy combination.
I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.
It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.
Do you know how much damage we could do to each other in an hour?
Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.
I'm the sort of writer who likes to leave doors open for readers.
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.
Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough
When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all.
We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.
Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.
I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.
I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.
Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.
When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.
Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.
Let the record reflect: the American people are a bunch of suckers.
I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.
Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.
The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.
Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.
Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.
I want to be constantly in awe of the possibilities of the universe.
The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.
Every time we mention the world, we must remember it is going to end.
It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.
Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.
The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.
What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.
I do just as much world-building in a short story as I do for a novel.
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.
Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.
Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.
If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?
What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life.
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.
Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.
Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.
My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.
If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.
Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die
Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.
Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.
Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.
You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.