Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.
Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum
Kiss those cuffs good-bye." Lula from "Hard Eight" By Janet Evonavich
And in the end, I think, we're all just trying to survive, aren't we?
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.
Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.
It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.
In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.
If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.
You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.
It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost.
Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.
I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.
Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.
I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.
Touring is exciting, fun and the reason why you want to be in a band.
The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.
Coffee is one of the special things I have, instead of a social life.
So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.