Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
The first time I met Harlan Ellison, we were both unpublished young punks in Cleveland, Ohio.
Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.
Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.
I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.
A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.
It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.
They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.
Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
To me, the Virgen de Guadalupe is just a vessel for me to recognize my own God within myself.
For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.
I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders.
What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?
Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.
The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.
One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone
The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.
As her father had so often said... Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
I hate you! (Artemis) Don’t keep saying that, Artie. It’s cruel to get my hopes up. (Acheron)
Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker)