Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm always interested in something that's missing.
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.
She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.
It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.
I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!
For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.
Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.
A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.
Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
People will always choose more money over more sex
Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do.
Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave.
Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.
Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.
Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!
Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.
And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.
If the person laughs well, they are a good person.
Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.
In the end all books are written for your friends.
He governed as if he felt predestined to never die
Nothing ever stands still, and neither should you.
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.
God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.
"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.