Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.
I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.
You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.
The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.
Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.
It's my experience that scientists can find it difficult to understand the needs of scriptwriters or storytellers.
The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim.
I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.
I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.
In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.
Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.
I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.
Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?