Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.
Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.
Be happy when you don't notice that you're getting old, it means you have had a great life so far.
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.
You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.
The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.
How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.
As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.
Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it.
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.
There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too.
Elena?" "Yes, unless Nick found a woman in the forest, which I suppose wouldn't be too surprising.
The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.
Within-group conflict is always personal and emotional - even if it begins with impersonal issues.
I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.
The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.
I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.
There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.
the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.
I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.
Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.
Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses.
The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.