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We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
And that Michael Irvin would care more about his wardrobe than I would?
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.