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Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.
I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.
Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.
If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.
You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.
Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block.
I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!
I spend more time being what I am: a writer, not the visiting celebrity.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.
If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.
The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
As the planet warms, evolution speeds. We've known this for a long time.
Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering.
Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.
We cracked up together, which was necessary, because she loved me again.
Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.
Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands.
The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.
I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.
Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!
There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.
Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.