Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.
I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
National liberation is necessarily an act of culture
Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.
There's a tangle between weakness and vulnerability.
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.
A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.
I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.
Writing a poem is making music with words and space.
To protect one's identity is a Constitutional right.
Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.
Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.
Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.
I write because I have authority from life to do so.
When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.
It is important not to show too many inches at once.
Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho.
Paris is wild; it's decadent... it's so many things.
I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.
Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.
May your first word be adventure and last word love.
I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.
There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.
A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
We never tire of the friendships we form with books.
But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.
The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.
I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.