Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same
Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.
To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.
If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.
I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.
We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love ?
To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.
Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.
We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.
If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.
Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.
I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look.
The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.
In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.
Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.
When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.
Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots