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Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
I love you because you're a child and you're scared.' You're going to hurt me in the end. You're quite mad.
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
Max Rose: Vo? What kind of name is that? Spader: What kind of name is Rose? Isn't that some kind of flower?
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.
Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.
[ Zionists] dominate the Banking institutions of America and they are the biggest contributors in politics.
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
What do I have to do to earn and deserve the key relationships that are going to get me where I want to go?
That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.
Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.
A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.
The vast majority of mankind never gives a thought of gratitude towards God for all His care and blessings.
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.
Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?
Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.
Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me.
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
You are more than you appear to be - Life is greater than you have ever known it - The best is yet to come.
Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.
Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.
I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.
Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.
ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.