Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless
Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.
Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.
I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.
Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.
Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.
So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different
The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake
Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.
Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?
I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.
Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.
It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.
I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter
I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.
Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.
Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.
I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.
Love is a state of union. When you can receive love, you can know union.
In our 20s, women in my generation, we all wanted to be Laurie Anderson.
My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.
As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.
I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.
As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, its fine with me.
Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.
I call people 'petal' all the time. My postman is very confused by this.
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.
Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)