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Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.
Sometimes love's not enough. And if it's not enough, what good is it ?
My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.
Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.
My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.
The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.
I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.
It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.
Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.
The only way to end up in the perfect future is to invent it yourself.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.