Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.
Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.