Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Science fiction is the very literature of change.
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
The one overall structure in my plays is language
No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
All that is literature seeks to communicate power
Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.
Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim
We must believe in free will - we have no choice.
The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Few nations match our rich resource of literature.
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.