Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.
Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.
One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.
The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.
It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.
My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.
Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by.
Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.
The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.
It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.
Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?
I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.
Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.
Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.
Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.
There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy].
Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.
Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.
There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.
I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.
Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.
Without the support of American Jews, Israel would shrink to its normal size.