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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.
In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.
She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.
It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.
...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone.
Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.
For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?
For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.
The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.
'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.
People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.
I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.