Quotes About Author

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

Her smile, though, no, it was her laugh, a dusky, deep cascading laughter that caught the joy, implied and mocked the sorrow in every joy.

She didn't realize how much the people scorned us, how they mocked her banal Communist clichés about their reality.

The father of information theory, Claude Shannon (1916–2001),

One lung, smaller, congested with rose smoke. The other, filled with a swarm of massive sentimentia.

was my first landscape, red brown as the clay of her georgia.

children when they ask you why is your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense

is it treason to remember what we have done to deserve such villainy nothing we reassure ourselves nothing

I am accused of tending to the past as if I made it, as if I sculpted it with my own hands. i did not, this past was waiting for me when I came,

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Material objects are of two kinds, atoms and compounds of atoms. The atoms themselves cannot be swamped by any force, for they are preserved indefinitely by their absolute solidity.

The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.

There is no power on earth so great as the power of intellect. It moves the world and it moves the earth.

It was during the great railroad strike of 1877 that i became interested in what is known as the 'Labor question

I suppose I also have a fondness for Cities because it was my first published novel - writing it got me over what had, up until that time, seemed like an insurmountable hurdle - the writing and completion of a novel. Oh, I'd begun several novels over the years, but never had the staying power or the faith in my own work to finish one.

T]he effect of the creation, all its majesty for the feelings and the imagination, is quite lost if the production of the world … is not taken in its real sense.

This philosophy] … is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman

World, do you know your creator? Seek him in the heavens Above the stars must He dwell.

every type of socialism is unworkable because economic calculation is impossible in a socialist community.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

There is joint action, but no joint thinking. There is only tradition which preserves thoughts and communicates them to others as a stimulus to their thinking.

But his much lauded doctrines are nothing but the fantasies of a man who was incapable of seeing clearly the world as it really is.

No better is the propensity, very popular nowadays, to brand supporters of other ideologies as lunatics. Psychiatrists