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I'm a lost soul. We do wail.
Good-bye and hello, as always.
The dead are too much with us.
Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.
Love is a negative form of hatred.
Nobody steals books but your friends.
Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.
Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.
The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.
Death is the only limit to the road you travel.
When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.
Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.
I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.
The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.
Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
I am fascinated, I suppose, by a flawed man with a streak of greatness.
Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.
Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.
In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you.
That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.
The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.
Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.
I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
The first time I met Harlan Ellison, we were both unpublished young punks in Cleveland, Ohio.
There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.
You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
When I got to college, I didn't take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class.
I was writing 'He Who Shapes' when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore.
If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.
Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.