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Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.
Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.
that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.
I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
I promise to stand by you unwaveringly through thick and some day, God willing, through thin.
Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?
Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.
I just like to write stories about people who survive even very difficult, impossible things.
Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.
Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth
It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.
It's nice, this. The canal." He looks at me. "You." "I'll bet you say that to all the canals.
If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.
It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.
I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.
All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.
Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it.
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.
I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future.
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
An antisemite used to be someone who hates Jews; nowadays an antisemite is someone Jews hate.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.
I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.
I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.
People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.
Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.