Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.

If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.

You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

Rage has such focus. It can't go on forever, but it's invigorating.

I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.

And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.

But the scars are always there, waiting for something to poke them.

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