Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart
I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
An urban novelist never minds a little decay.
Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.
I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
To live in a city is to be forever flinching.
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.
The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.
To us and a wonderful evening of love making.
The past beats inside me like a second heart.
The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.
It's a wonderful thing to write for children.
To a real child anything will serve as a toy.
This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.
The world began in hazard and will end in it.
Matters change and morals change; men remain.
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.
His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.
The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.
If character is destiny, the good are damned.
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
One cannot always marry the person one loves.
Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.
I piss on you all from a considerable height.
I like good strong words that mean something.
Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.
Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?
Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.
Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?
Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
The only cartoon I ever liked was 'Fantasia.'
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.
All big changes of the world come from words.
I have been fighting over commas all my life.
I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.
Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.
Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.