Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.
It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.
Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.
Just hold me please,” she replied. I’d hold her forever if I could.
You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -Jax
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.
Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.
Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.
Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.
Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.
The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.
You must have been going very fast." "I was, until I hit the fence.
[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.
The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.
I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.
Home is the place that'll catch you when you fall. And we all fall.
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.
I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.