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Quotes by Writer
"The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe."
37
"Greatness depends on where you are coming from."
37
"When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind."
37
"The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply."
Food,
37
"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit."
37
"The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed."
37
"Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need."
37
"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
37
"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense."
37
"The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side."
37
"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
37
"Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?"
37
"Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them."
37
"I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity."
37
"Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems."
37
"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
37
"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
37
"To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober."
37
"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
37
"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."
37
"Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me."
37
"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."
37
"I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book."
37
"Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway."
Car,
37
"It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent."
37
"All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds."
37
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