Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.
It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.
I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.
If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.
When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.
Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.
I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on.
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.
Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing.
[Degree in English] gave me a little more self-confidence, to know that I'd managed to complete something like that.
And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.
Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.
Like most writers, I read constantly. I used to hide in remote parts of the yard and house so I could read in peace.
It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better.
As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them.
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
After Psychonauts went on to be very, very popular in Europe, I got busy with my next big project: being unemployed.
They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.
In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.
The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians. [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.]
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.
oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much
A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.
Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.