Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.
Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.
My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.
I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.
The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.
Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.
Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.
Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?
Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.
She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.
A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.
Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be
I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.
Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.
A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths
I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.
The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.