Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.
A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.
Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.
I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena
Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).
tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.
Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.
You cannot escape sex. It will track you to the ends of the earth.
If there is anything I really fear it is the mind of a young girl.
I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.
Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances.
After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.
I miss the newness of Magic Eye posters, which really are amazing.
Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.
I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.
Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.
The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.
I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.
Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.
My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.
Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.