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Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."
We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.
Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.
Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.
When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.
There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.
You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.
There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country knows it.
"Welcome to the Amity compound," Johanna's eyes fix on my face, and she smiles crookedly. "Let us take care of you."
Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.
...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.
love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.
Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.
A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.
Fine. You don’t want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.
But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.
When you get inside go change into something loose and baggy. And for all that's holy, please wear panties and a bra.
I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!
Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.
When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.
Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.