Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is.
The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.
Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.
History breaks down into images, not into stories.
Between killing and dying there's a third way: live
I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.
I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
The one genre I'm not really into: self-help books.
Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.
I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.
The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.
Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
Love as intense as ice, love as remote as blackness.
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
It is only for those without hope that hope is given.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.
To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.
Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.
Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.
Literature tells very little to those who understand it.
It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.