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I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.
I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic reading for me.
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.
The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.
The truth is true wherever you find it. Remember, sugar is sweet whether you find it in a sugar bowl or a dust pan.
Any one can heal who believes that he can, and who will take the time to put that belief in motion through the Law.
I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.
May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.
I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.
At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark
Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.
A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.
Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.
My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.
You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.
The more wisdom we know the more we may earn. Those who seek to learn more of their craft shall be richly rewarded.
If you could press a button and your ego investment was less, the toothache would be less. Or less tragic at least.
We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.