Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.
Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'
Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.
Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.
To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.
Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.
If God had wanted me to lose weight he would have made sure there was creamed spinach for dessert.
As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.
When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.
I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.
What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.
I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.
We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation.
I think being an archer is much more integral to Green Arrow and his mythos than it is to Hawkeye.
And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.
I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.
At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.
My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.
No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.
Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.
Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.
My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.
I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.
Becoming a musician was all about escape. It was about getting away from the foulness that was me.
The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.
It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.
In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.
The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.
Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.