Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.
Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.
I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.
Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.
Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Literature tells very little to those who understand it.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure
I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.
For me especially, I always need that literature medium.
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.