Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.
My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate
When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.
The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.
Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.
Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
I call to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence
I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.
The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more.
Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?
The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.
I am a socially liberal libertarian who is not for open borders.
There is an incentive to be a victim. It is cool to be a victim.
Carl Barks and Don Rosa are two of my favorite cartoonists ever.
Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.
Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.
Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.
Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.
Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'
Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.