All forms of sexual loving become acceptable if the lovers wear togas or wolfskins.

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that.

Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true.

One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.

He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen.

Food is the main engine that drives connectedness, relationship in Chinese society.

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Never frown even when ur sad, coz u never know whose falling in love with ur smile!

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.

Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

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