Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.
I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest.
Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.
I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.
More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.
I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.
I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.
Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.
I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.
Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference.
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is.
There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
I think that being a housewife is the most noble profession there is.
Chauvinist doesn't mean sexist. Chauvinist means extremely patriotic.
Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
My evangelical phase about Burning Man is well and truly in the past.
Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.
I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.
Blogging is best learned by blogging...and by reading other bloggers.
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.
There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.
Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.
Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?
No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.
Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.
I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work