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If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that.
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent
When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
Most Americans don't understand Canadian political parties. Neither do most Canadians
I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.
Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).
I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.
Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
I cried at first, and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy.
The most Beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex.
I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.
The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.
Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.
The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?
Nothing really prevented me from showing Catman as bi, but it's how I thought of him.
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.
We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.
Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?
I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.
In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.
I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.
The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.
I'm a big fan of the Russians: Isaac Babel is just an exquisite line-to-line stylist.
We have not been energetic enough - white people haven't - in pursuing racial equity.
I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.