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Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.
If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer.
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.
When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.
There were a lot of beautiful, thin people out there driving nice cars. It was a whole different experience being in L.A.
If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.
God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.
Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him
All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.
Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.
Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.
Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.
This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.
Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your "reporting" that you do.
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.
I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.
It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.
You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.
It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.
The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.
The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.
It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.