Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now
I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.
My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.
There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.
Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.
People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.
The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.
TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.
This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.
Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.
Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America.
The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.
I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window
Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".
To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.