Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.
Confining a resume to a single page is good advice for anyone.
But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.
I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.
My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.
Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.
When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.
That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.
Abundance = choice = freedom. Scarcity = dependence = control.
The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.
People won't start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.
I'm anti-religious. I don't like people telling me what to do.
To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
Everybody’s got a mean side. Just don’t feed it till it grows.
Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
Touch is the magic wand of intimacy. Love is keeping in touch.
Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.
There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance.
The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)
Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.
I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.
Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.
Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't
...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.
Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.
My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.
In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.
Power comes with a price. It's a burden. It demands sacrifice.
Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
The first start toward success is to be glad you are yourself.
Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.