Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.
Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.
When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.
I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.
For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.
I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?
The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.
It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?
Keep your dream in front of you. Never let it go regardless of how farfetched it might seem.
Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones.
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.
I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.
The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.
In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.
By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.
No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.