Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.
Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.
The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.
He is a poor man who can only measure his wealth in dollars.
THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.
I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.
True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
What is really important you can't understand with your mind.
We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.
It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.
Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.
Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?
They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.
Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.
Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.
By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.
What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.
In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.
Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.
Please don't let Daddy die Susie," he whispered. "I need him.
As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
You're killing me here! You are far more dangerous than I am!
Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.
Why does the American cyberindustry have a thing for Indians?
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.