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You never realize a dog is a man's best friend until you start betting on horses.
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.
Nuh-uh. No deals with the devil. I’ve learned my lesson on that one. ~Jaime Vegas
Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.
Having a sense of humor is a part of being courageous. It's a source of strength.
After writing several chapter books, I found my true passion: historical fiction.
You’re crying.” “I’m not.” “Right,” he said mildly. “I suppose you got rained on.
She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude.
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.
People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.
Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.
Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.
I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.
murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip" -ID, Anita to Nathaniel
Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.
Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.
All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.
There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.
If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.
Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.
My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.
In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.
It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.
There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.
I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.
Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.