Quotes About Author

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy.

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality.

It's not the fear of writing that blocks people, it's fear of not writing well; something quite different.

Fear is feeling, is not what do you think. That feeling keeps your body in every way to 100% and makes you react like a wild animal. It gives you that extra than you have in a normal

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

Never feel guilty. Don't hold yourself back by guilt or fear. No other species in the entire world deals with guilt. Guilt is a bizarre emotion that makes you feel bad about decisions that you make.

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable