Quotes About Author

Two's description of reading Lord of the Flies for school: It is only 208 pages, I have already read it, and it is not very interesting. It is by William Golding who won an award for showing that boys are mean and badly behaved, even somewhere nice like the beach. This seems like something anyone in the entire world who has ever met a boy could tell you, but they gave William Golding a Nobel Prize for it.

Clement felt nearly hysterical with exhaustion, and strangling Gilly seemed better than listening to him recount irrelevant history.

He held the landlordship of an inn to be the same as Shaw's definition of marriage – as something combining the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.

GUY: You're a writer? ME: Yeah. GUY: Any of your books made into a movie? ME: Sigh.

But I do know that any place where there are six novels by the author of Pride and Prejudice must be a very special sort of heaven.

Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there. In sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part.

O Ocean, you remind me somewhat of the bluish marks one sees on the battered backs of cabin boys.

It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.

owned zoo in an occupied country. Military

It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer. --Mick Ballou

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

I wish to descend in the social scale. High society is low society. I am a social climber climbing downward And the descent is difficult. (- Junkman's Obbligato)

is where I first/ fell in love/ with unreality

and I am waiting/ for Alice in Wonderland/ to retransmit to me/ her total dream of innocence

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

Heeding Warnings about Violent Conflict? Persuasion in Foreign Policy.

I ain't need no proof of puberty at fucking six o'clock on a Wednesday morning.

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

how he once slipped through the "scriptural text" of his daily life into the primordial light of consciousness itself.

If my writing produces angry reactions, then it might also effect a more balanced reflection. These are hard times to get it right, but the easy answers to yesterday's debate won't get it right.

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.