Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?
Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.