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The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?
Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.
Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science fiction.
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
Coffee takes on an almost ritualistic meaning. I learned that from being on hurricane patrol for a year in the North Atlantic.
Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.
Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.
Before Donald Trump took office, optimism about his presidency was the lowest of any president-elect since at least the 1970s.
The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?'
Sometimes I just tell my kids, 'Outside of France, I'm considered completely normal.' This worked until we traveled to London.
Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.
I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
Auri," I asked slowly, "are you joking with me?" She looked up and grinned. "Yes I am," she said proudly. "Isn't it wonderful?
There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.
'Batman Beyond' started because we were tossed a curve, because the higher ups at Warner Bros. wanted a different take on him.
I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.
If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
I'm hard to get rid of." He smiled. All Tegan's suspicions about the boy came flooding back. "So it seems," she replied icily.
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.
You are what you love, not who loves you... a person who loves has always won, no matter whether or not the love is fulfilled.
I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.
The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be saved is the gospel of John.
My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.
The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.
A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.
It was painful, but I really wanted to get 'Hollow City' right, and I'm glad I put in the time because I'm really proud of it.
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.
You can purposefully use your feelings to transmit an even more powerful frequency, by adding feeling to what you are wanting.