Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.
...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.
The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.
We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!
The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime
...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.
The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.
War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.
I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.
Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.
Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?
One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.
The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.