Quotes About Author

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

The unique point of view from which the author can present the world to those freedoms whose concurrence he wishes to bring about is that of a world to be impregnated always with more freedom. It would be inconceivable that this unleashing of generosity provoked by the writer could be used to authorize an injustice, and that the reader could enjoy his freedom while reading a work which approves or accepts or simply abstains from condemning the subjection of man by man. In

Time has its own viscosity, as Michel Foucault remarked. Ekstatic temporality embodies its flow.

Totalitarian are the claims of Christ. No vestige of reservation of 'our' rights can remain.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.

People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected the American society within the last fifty years.

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

That God's grace is utterly irresistible over the long run now seems to me the best interpretation of Pauline theology, as a majority of theologians in the West have always insisted.

for though it be a maxim in the schools that there is no Love of a thing unknown, yet I have found that things unknown have a secret influence on the soul,

greeting the Reverend, who was once again meek, as though this very day he might inherit the earth.

This atrocious child, whom even now she loved.

If your mind jumps to crazy story ideas from little things you see all around you, you might be a writer.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.

chuck-full of error, masturbation and Jesus.

She had one of those twisty minds that find no difficulty in sublimating their meanest little impulses to almost dizzily ethical heights.

He was committing a terrible crime. He was destroying her good opinion of herself. Topper

making. Little birds were always so excited. He had

Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.