Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.
For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.
If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place
Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
I think I have made just one picture that I really like.
One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction
A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.
A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.
A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.
Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.
Sweetie, nothing that flies looks safe, including birds.
I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.
You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.
New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.
My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.
Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.
Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.
Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.
Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.