Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I’m sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.
I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.
You could cast nearly any movie in Brooklyn, and now you can film in Brooklyn - for you have studios.
it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.
When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.
Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.
Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood
I love Urban Fantasy, even though I'm inevitably compared to 'Supernatural,' only a little more edgy.
I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.
70 percent of what we do involves staring into space trying to figure out what the hell happens next.
Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.
Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.
Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.
Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.
I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.
When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.
I’ve come to ask how you do it. How you feel what I know you’re feeling and then walk away like that.
I remember reading about the Marie Celeste when I was a kid and becoming obsessed with what happened.
I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.
I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.
Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.