Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
Why did you choose to stay here?" (...) "I don't know," he said. "It's as if there's more oxygen here.
Being called close-minded by religious people is a bit like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas.
She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door
Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.
But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.
It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?
I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.
Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice
I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.
It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough.
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.
How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?" "I sweat perfume. Like all girls.
Hope for forces which you do not yet have. That is what is most impossible, and nevertheless possible.
A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!
It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.
Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it!
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".
There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.
It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.
We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.
I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.
When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.