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Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.
Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?
The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.
I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.
I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.
So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.
Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.
The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
There, I'm an artist. Thousands of women on ecstasy now want to have three-ways with me.
It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.
There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.
Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.
I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.
I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.
I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?
Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.
Nothing in the world is difficult, it is only our own thoughts that make things seem so.
Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.
Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.