Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Members of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth.
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.
Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'
The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.
Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.
What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.
They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.
I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.
My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of fiction.
Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?
It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.
Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.
You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.
The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.
It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.
[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.
Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated.
Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.
A man's potential for God lies not in his ability, nor in his opportunity, but in his humility before God.
Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.
...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.
Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.
I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.
We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.