Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.
The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.
That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.
But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.
There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.
A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life
The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.
Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.
For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.
There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.
I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.
I don't think we find compassion. I think we become the space that compassion wants to live in.
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.
You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture
but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.
If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.
I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.
I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.
I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.
Clearly it was time to consider rescheduling that optometrist appointment I'd missed last fall.
I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.
I thought of running for office when I was in law school, but I wanted to work on human rights.
The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.