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I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been.
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.
This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling
I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.
Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.
For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.
happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.
I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).
I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!
When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.
You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.
There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.
I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.
The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.
We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?
That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.
You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.