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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
Vampires should be pretty much like mean girls, all the time, only amazing at it. Flawless. They've had time.
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.
You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.
He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.
In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.
We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.
Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.
On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.
You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it.
The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.
It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.
I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.
Stephen King in general, as well as films of the apocalypse from the '70s, had a big influence on 'Zone One.'
Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.
Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.
If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.
I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.
I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.
If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
But sometimes the night reveals the only truth that time passes and things will never be seen the same again.
I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.
Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.
I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.
Sir James Jeans Always says what he means He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious.
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.
What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.