Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
Writers must constantly ask: what I am trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don't know.
Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else.
Everything you desire is outside your comfort zone - otherwise, you would already have it.
I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.
I don't have prejudices against anybody. I have opinions, based on a lifetime's experience.
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
Small issues are really just large ones that haven't been accorded the requisite attention.
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.
A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.
I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say
He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be
I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.
I'm not sure if the audience can smell tuna but the special guest each show definitely can.
Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.
I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.
Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.
The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.
True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.
Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!
If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production
As I drifted off to sleep, I could hear him breathing, and that definitely helped me relax.
And I'm stuck in it with no way out. I love you, and I can't stop, and you don't even care!
His lips brushed against mine. Delicately at first, almost testing to see if this was real.
What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.
My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.
I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel.
I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.