Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.
I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.
The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.
Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.
You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
Oh dear,' said Eddie. 'We'd better hurry. Tinto, call me a cab.' All right,' said Tinto. 'You're a cab.
Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.
The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.
This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .
I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.
You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys.
It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty
It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.
Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.
I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.
A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.
Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.
I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.
Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.
Ugh! Erin. You have a one-track mind." She smiled deviously. "I prefer to think of it as target-driven.
Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.
But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.
There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.
We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.