top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Writer
"Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub."
49
"I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it."
49
"It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon."
49
"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."
49
"The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language."
49
"In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic."
49
"When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser."
49
"The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes."
49
"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."
49
"I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept."
49
"The more you think change is outside of yourself the more you reinforce the idea that you do not hold the power of change inside of you."
49
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
49
"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."
49
"The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture."
49
"Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are."
49
"I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power."
49
"Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill."
49
"Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient."
49
"I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can."
49
"A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person."
49
"No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."
49
"I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification."
49
"It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... If a person in physical pain has a hard time attending to anything except that pain, a clinically depressed person cannot even perceive any other person or thing as independent of the universal pain that is digesting her cell by cell."
49
"Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price."
49
"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."
49
"Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories."
49
bottom of page