Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
They don’t eat that much.” “In comparison to what? Starving marines?
It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.
An actual saga demands change, both in its characters and its world.
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.
We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].
You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.
Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be *us*.
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.
I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?
I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.
I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.
I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.
Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.
To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.
Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.
It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.
'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.