Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.
Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches
It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.
I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15.
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?
I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.
Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.
Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery.
There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.
You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best
You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.
By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.
Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.
Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.
I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.
You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle
I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.
You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to.
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.