Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.
A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.
Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.
You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.
there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.
God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.
We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.
Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.
One never repents of having spoken too little but often of having spoken too much.
The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.
When I was younger, I used to find stories about divas charming. Not much anymore.
...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.
...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.
You are the master of your life, and the Universe is answering your every command.
the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!
Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.
Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.
He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.
At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.
There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.
Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.
When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.
My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing.
Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.
There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child.
Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.
The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.
I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.
At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.
You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.
I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.
The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.
Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.