Quotes About Author

I'm a bit farther ahead in the day," Simon said negatively. "But a Dry Sack on the rocks would go down nicely.

by occupation this man is an editor, and ever since the first Saint story he has never stopped pestering me to dig into my memory for more stories of the Saint. In fact, as you see, he will go so far as to try and initiate them.

Do you think I'd carry a gun in a suit like this ? My tailor would throw a fit.

the Saint did not seem to be aware that he was multiplying miracles with an easy grace that would have made a Grand Lama look like a third-rate three-card man.

Of Simon Templar it could truly be said that to him all the world was a stage, and all the men and women merely players in an endless comedy drama designed for his especial entertainment and incidentally his cut at the box office.

Laugh out-loud funny" by a "Master Storyteller".

But if theory is not the crystallized resin of experience, it ceases to be a guide to action.

Remember me as a revolutionary communist.

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

I've been to livelier funerals," grumbled Herb.

Tolkienist (n.) Someone who studies the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.

Instead of teaching us to love one another and help each other in our sorrow, they teach us the deplorable history of our countries, which are steeped in hatred and blood." Late

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

Opinions about how it ought to function can only be personal opinions, and any assertion that the purpose for which human life exists has in fact been revealed by the One whose purpose it is, is treated as unacceptable dogmatism.

the "home base" of missions is now nothing less than the worldwide community, and

The difference is not between the use of reason and its abandonment; it is the difference between two ways of understanding the world, one in which the self is sovereign and the other in which I understand myself only in a relation of mutuality with other selves.

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

A Reasonable Guide to Horrible Noise

If there's nothing more poisonous than bigotry, there's nothing more pathetic than liberal guilt.

we may safely predict that Marx himself will become more and more what he already is: a chapter from a textbook of the history of ideas, a figure that no longer evokes any emotions, simply the author of one of the 'great books' of the nineteenth century—one of those books that very few bother to read but whose titles are known to the educated public.

There is probably no part of the civilized world in which Marxism has declined so completely and socialist ideas have been so discredited and turned to ridicule as in the countries of victorious socialism.

The general principle of equality is undoubtedly Marxist, but it is hard to suppose that Marx would have seen it as embodied in the policy of packing off intellectuals to the rice-fields.

I am not a Kant expert and no Kantian but, I should say, a Kant sympathizer—especially where conflicts between Kantian and so-called historicist thinking are concerned, both in epistemology and in ethics.