Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.
Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.
Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.
I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.
How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.
We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.
Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.
It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.
I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.
There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.
It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams
Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.
I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.
That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.