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Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.
I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.
A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable
[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.
We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.
Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.
You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.
Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.
I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.
We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.
I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.
Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?
Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?
Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.
Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.
People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.
Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.
The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.
The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.
They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world.
Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.