Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.
At least no one's trying to kill anyone. Give them about fifteen minutes
Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?
Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.
My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.
Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.
Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens
They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.
I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas
I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.
Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.
Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.
The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns.
I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.
A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.
The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.
Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.
Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?
In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.
As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.
I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul
I'd much rather sit next to a smoker in a restaurant than a nose-blower.
Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.
I sense a thousand strands of sorrow are sewn into an inch of my spirit.
Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.
What you want can be yours. But you must first know what it is you want.
And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.
Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.
Home is where i hang my toothbrush and where the cats have their commode
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted
The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.
There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.