Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.
The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists.
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.