Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?
I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.
I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.
Live as if you have faith,” she said, “and faith shall be given to you.
Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.
Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.
Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.
The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.
When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.
Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?
I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.
We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.
That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.
The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt.
Go for the sense of inner joy and peace then all outside things appear.
The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.
Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.
I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet.
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.
Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.
Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.
Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.
New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.
Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire.
As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.
I am fascinated, I suppose, by a flawed man with a streak of greatness.
I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.
All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times
In truth, I don't care about making feminism more accessible to anyone.
Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.