Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?
Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.
I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.
I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.
I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.
It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.
You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.
And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.
We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.
Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos.
People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering.
My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe
A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.
When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.
I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.
I find that in letters you can make things whatever you wish them to be.
Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!
He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.