Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't
A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine
Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.
if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.
The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.
Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.
I remember being absolutely rocked to my core by how profoundly I could love another human being.
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.
There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.
Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.
Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts.
We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?'