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Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.
I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.
I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.
What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?
So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.
Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.
Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.
We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.
You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed.
Testosterone is the world’s most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you’re helpless.
I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you." "What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny!
I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.
We have this thing as human beings: we have a profound need for story. That's what kids need.
I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.
Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.
I'm proud of being from Hawaii, and I'm proud of being Hawaiian, but I'm more than that, too.
That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.
One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.
The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.
Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.