Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.
I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.
We are stuck with not knowing what our actions will actually lead to.
A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!
I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.
Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.
I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.
Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.
Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.
[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.
So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.
I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.
All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.
Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.