The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.

I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.

Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout." "Whithout what?

Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms

You're kind of a smart ass when you're not flat on your face.

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

sometimes the most simple conclusion is also the most correct

Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.

Women bond differently, and I dont think men understand that.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

A lot of men just don't read. They don't read fiction at all.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

I think of myself as a human-rights advocate and as a mother.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

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