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Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.
For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.
What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.
Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.
Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.
Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.
I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
We're going jogging." "I don't run for recreation. I run when someone's after me with a weapon." "That can be arranged.
Druid log July 15: Dark elves are not only quick and efficient killers, but creative and pyrotechnically inclined ones.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house.
When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you think so?
I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.
I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.
We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.
There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.
…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.
I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.
The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.
As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.
La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.
The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn't be alone... so I had to bring him wherever I went.
These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.
Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness.
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.
There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.
I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?
Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.
I'm not saying it because I'm sweet. I'm saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine.
I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.
If you ask who I aspire to, well, if a single line of mine was as funny as P. G. Wodehouse can be, that would be great.
I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.