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Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.
I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.
How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world
When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.
Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.
Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
When we change the message of God, we change the God of the message.
It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities.
I identify entirely with Jane Austen's point of view, on everything.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.
Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.
The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.
And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.
I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy'—in Chinese or in English.
Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.
What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.
Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
Roses are red Violets are blue Everything's possible Nothing is true.
We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.
Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything