Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.
You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.
The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.
When you emit the perfect frequency of what you want, the perfect people, circumstances, and events will be attracted to you and delivered!
That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.
I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow.
We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.
It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.
The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.
I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.
We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.
Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.
Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.
The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.
There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.
With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.
Foul!" yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. "Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now.
It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.
Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.
Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic. Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen.
To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.
Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]
Don’t be stupid, Katra. Never speak in anger and never try to force your will onto someone else. You’ll never find peace in that. (Acheron)
Again, I repeat, don’t ask questions you don’t want answered. Just accept the fact that Acheron is a freak of nature and let it go. (Zarek)
And they choose our mates. (Ravyn) So what do they do? Jump here on earth, tap you on the shoulder, and say, ‘Hey, bub, marry her’? (Susan)
It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This is the world of writing.
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.
The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.
Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.
You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.