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Quotes by Writer
"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."
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"In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms."
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"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."
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"No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable."
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"Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics."
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"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
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"Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy."
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"It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made."
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"Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up."
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"At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails."
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"When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen."
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"There's always something coming. Good or bad, it's going to force you to grow."
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"Sometimes you gotta take a break from all the noise to appreciate the beauty of silence."
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"Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary."
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"Just a few questions for you, Mr. Dunne. Or Kenny. Can I call you Kenny? I feel we've become friends in these past few seconds. Can I call you Kenny?"
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"The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us."
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"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."
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"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
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"All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today."
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"People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life - and for me, for writing as whole. I believe many runners would agree."
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"Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that."
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"A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one."
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"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
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"Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."
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"Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
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"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
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"Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves."
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"The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside."
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"You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart."
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"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
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"Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless."
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