Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet.
My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.
On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.
Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.
Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!
Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Give your friend cause to blush, and you will be likely to lose him.
He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
I never spend my time doing anything I'll have to do again tomorrow.
A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?
You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.
Perv." He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?
Eeek,” Shane said. Nothing. Right, Amazon princess, I got the point.
I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.
A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.
I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.
I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.
Just keep saying yes to everything - until you can afford to say no.
John Bellairs's young adult mysteries were great - and super creepy.
We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.
Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.
You have to talk about what you love, to bring what you love to you.
It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time have good thoughts
Turn it over to the universe daily.. but it should never be a chore.
Every thought of yours is a real thing – a force. (Prentice Mulford)
I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.
Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.
Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.
A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.
This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.
Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.
When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future.