Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?
There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.
You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.
I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.
Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.
Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.
People rarely said what they thought, or revealed how they felt. No one was honest.
I'd always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
I have this guitar on which I occasionally kill time making up rock n' roll lyrics.
I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.
You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.
Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.
I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.
I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren't on your way to die.
I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
We lived in the attic, Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me, Now there are only three.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.
We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.
Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."
He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.
Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.
All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.
Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.
Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.