Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.
I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.
Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.
I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.
There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.
Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.
You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.
I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.
We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn.
Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.
A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.
We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.
Michael: There's nothing here to fear. Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.
Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.
I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).
I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.
I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'
I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.
Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough.
I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.
If I'm doing something as an offering unto the Lord, I want to give God my best.
There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.
I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.
Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since
Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice
Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.