Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
The organization and the environment are in concert.
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
There's nothing political about American literature.
I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
I've always had difficulties with female characters.
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
Love is always being given where it is not required.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.
To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.
Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.
Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
History without politics descends to mere Literature.
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.