Quotes About Author

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong possibility that yours is a fake.

My readiness to admit to my fallibility is perhaps rather English, but I hope that the problems I describe will be familiar to doctors and patients everywhere.

He has been the subject of two major documentary films, Your Life in Their Hands, which won the Royal Television Society Gold Medal, and The English Surgeon, which won an Emmy,

I' am a transient electrochemical dance, made of myriad bits of information; and information, as the physicists tell us, is physical.

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything

leadership is a sacred trust earned from the respect of those

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

He would have finished Goddam off then and there, but pity stayed his hand. 'It's a pity I've run out of bullets,' he thought.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

I will never be able to pound words into lines To match the velocity of your presence

Not enough samurai in the world today. Just a bunch of assholes running wild with much too much freedom." Henry Rollins, from his book Solipsist.

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

You may specify by telephone," the voice droned on, "whether you wish his body interred by the Government or would you prefer a private burial place? The fee for Government burial is ten dollars.

O joys! Infinite sweetness! with what flowersAnd shoots of glory, my soul breaks, and buds!

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.