Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.
Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.
Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.
We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.
I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' "It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.
Dogs are joiners; if they were guys, their idea of a good time would be to attend an Elks luncheon.
Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York
Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.
That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.
It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.
Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.
When my mother in Florida mentions that she's off to play golf, I think: Golf? In the age of Trump?
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.
Over the years, she'd learned not to question him to closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.
This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.
If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.
Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.
When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.