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I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
If I'm not supposed to be awake, why are you here?" I mumbled. "To be the little spoon.
A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.
It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'
This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.
Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.
Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.
Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.
The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.
Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...
Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.
I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.
The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.
Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.
It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.
Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.
As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.
The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.
Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?
I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state
Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.
Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.
It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.
I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.
Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.
I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.
We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.
There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.