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Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.
My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.
Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?
I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that?
I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.
The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.
Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...
Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.
Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.
It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.
Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.
I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away
It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.
Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.
... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.
When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.
Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.
Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, You know that point they made... they were dead on.
A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.
Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.
Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.
There was no sense of burden, like, 'I now must carry on Robert Kennedy's unfinished work.' Absolutely not.
If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.
There are no wealthy people on Rikers Island because if you are wealthy, you go free because you make bail.
Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.
He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.
It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.
Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!
So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.