Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.
Having the book-club army embrace you is a gift that keeps giving for years.
For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.
Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.
All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.
If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.
More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.
Awards bolster your confidence in wonderful ways. But they aren't the world.
I was someone who believed that every day should be different from the last.
If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white.
Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there.
Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.
I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.
My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.
You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.
Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.
Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.
The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious.
Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone.
We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash.
I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.
Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.
There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.