Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.
Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.
somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
Who knows the tryst a man keeps with the wind and sky.
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.
When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.
The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.
parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.
oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.
She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.
The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.
Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person
I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.
Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.
Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.
From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men.
One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.
Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
No matter how hard times are, people still want music.
My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.
Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.
That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
The impossible isn't a limitation, it's an invitation.