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Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.
There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton
Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.
I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
I love you." He frowns. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say. "I love you.
Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?
Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.
The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.
We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.
Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.
Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.
Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.
Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?
If you look up every last detail on your subject, you'll never finish.
There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.
I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.
I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.