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When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.
Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.
I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
Things happen in life and you can’t control them. It sucks and you have to move on.
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.
I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.
Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?
Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
I am notorious for always having two beagles with me, in any and all circumstances.
The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.
Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.
I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.
As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.
There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.
And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling.
You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.
It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.
A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.
A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.