Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.
Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.
There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.
Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...
Oh, there was a wedding all right. Did I mention that my sister didn't show up at the church either, Mr. Clayborne?
Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.
She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.
Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.
Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
There's still, even now, a part of me that can't believe that I got published. That part of me has never gone away.
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.
I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.
Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid.
The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter)
It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.
I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.
If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.
He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.
I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.
They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.
Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.
Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!
From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."
Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life
Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.