Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.
The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.
I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?
He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.
Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else
It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.
Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.
I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.
A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.
It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.
Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.
When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.
Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.
Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.
If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.
He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.
Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?
On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.
I used to think I had nice arms, but I don't even think that anymore.
When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards.
I'm gonna make that asshole gnaw his own hand off that night, dammit.
Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.
I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.
What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.