Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.
In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.
What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.
Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.
Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
'Tough' is one of the last adjectives I would use to describe myself.
I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.
Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.
It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.
My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.
. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down
Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.
Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.
Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.
You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.
The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.
I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.
Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.
marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage
It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.
When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.
The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
In the direction that your fear is growing, you're on the right path.
There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.
The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.
I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.
If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.
Hardships drive some people apart. Others, like us, grow even closer.
Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.
It took strength to hold on to inner passion, and Noah had done that.
It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.