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The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.
I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.
I've been called a traitor a few times in my life by some of my countrymen.
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.
I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.
I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.
The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.
I've learned... that everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.
The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.
If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there.
Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
Times change and we should change and grow, and yet be proud of our legacy.
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.
I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.
Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.
Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.
I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.
I came home and found that my son was taking drugs - my very best ones too!
For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.
My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?
Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.
Did you ever notice that America is shaped like one big, giant toilet bowl?
I just want to take a realistic look now, now that we have enough distance.
A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.
My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.