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Quotes by Writer
"If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it."
72
"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."
72
"Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?"
72
"In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim.You promised not to do that, the boy said.What?You know what, Papa.He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back.I have to watch you all the time, the boy said."
72
"There is no escape-we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
72
"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
72
"Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort."
72
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
72
"Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world.But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain."
72
"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."
71
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
71
"A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall."
71
"The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to."
71
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
71
"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
71
"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."
71
"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."
71
"A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain."
71
"The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony."
71
"But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry (of life) will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge of the world that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate."
71
"The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years."
71
"If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons."
71
"Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor."
71
"There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong."
71
"That's how stories happen - with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."
71
"That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain."
71
"They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat."
71
"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."
70
"I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prision. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key."
70
"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes."
70
"I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun."
70
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."
70
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
70
"I feel that everyone has a right to be insane."
70
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