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In terms of pure volume, I probably read more psychological mystery and historical true crime than anything else.
'What time is it,' you ask? According to 16 of my dearest writing pals, it's always time for a wonderful romance!
That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.
It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.
Different tenses and perspectives offer you different things. It helps to distinguish the world that they are in.
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.
[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.
Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.
What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.
Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.
Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.
Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.
I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.
I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.
It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)
...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.
Look, my dad has a saying - we'll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can't imagine that it is real because it looks like a movie lot.