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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.
It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.
I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with!
If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.
Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.
There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.
I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.
You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.
Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.
For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.
Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
I don't think his elevator went all the way to the top anymore, if you know what I mean
This is war,' I yelled through the door. Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.
The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.
People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.
'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch.
There are no perfect life plan formulas. It’s a roller coaster with various exit ramps.
The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.
Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.'
Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world.
The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.
I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.
If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.
To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.
You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.
I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!
I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.
It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.
Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.
The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.
We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.
Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.
We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.
Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a puppy lick your face.
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.