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I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.
MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.
She open her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his figures continued playing with out pause.
If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.
Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.
Most female characters have either been the temptress - like a Betty Boop type - or the victim - like an Olive Oil type.
Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.
It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.
..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.
When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.
I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.
The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.
Silence, and then Eve said, "Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind.
I happen to collect the weird stuff - photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.
My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.
I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly.
The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.
Just the simple process of letting go of negative thoughts will allow your natural state of health to emerge within you.
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard.
I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.
Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.