Quotes About Author

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

In this view, capitalism—the system that supports the democracies of the West and has raised the living standards of hundreds of millions of human beings to levels that only royalty enjoyed in the past—is barbarism, while the system that murdered millions and impoverished whole continents is civilization.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.

T]he Old Testament, [...] if considered as a general rule of conduct, would lead to consequences destructive of all principles of humanity and morality.

Rousseau is] the person whom I most revere both for the Force of [his] Genius and the Greatness of [his] mind [...]

Beyond the constant conjunction of similar objects, and the consequent inference from one to the other, we have no notion of any necessity, or connexion.

with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds or trace their history from eternity to eternity?

The ultimate Author of all our volitions is the Creator of the world, who first bestowed motion on this immense machine, and placed all beings in that particular position, whence every subsequent event, by an inevitable necessity, must result. Human actions, therefore, either can have no moral turpitude at all, as proceeding from so good a cause; or if they have any turpitude, they must involve our Creator in the same guilt, while he is acknowledged to be their ultimate cause and author.

Trust, like the lubricant in an engine, is noticed only when it is gone and the motor has seized up.

public opinion is undergoing a major evolution, due to the impressive German victories.

The sharp-tongued Monsignor Tardini dubbed Hitler the "Motorized Attila.

Pius XII "is good, fine, sensitive, it is even said oversensitive. But in my opinion, he lacks personality, or more exactly he lacks strong character.

The story of the earlier decades remains unknown and largely unexamined.

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

Whenever you have two groups who think violence is an option they are a vibrational confrontation waiting to happen.

this is what its saying: any criticism of someone who happens to be Jewish... for almost any reason, is anti-semitic

To the north of this pleasant robot of a city was the Malay Peninsula;

The thing that "chosen" does not imply is that God arbitrarily chooses some people over others to be saved.

THE BOOK OF Malachi was given about 430 BC (see Bible Dictionary, under "Malachi"). It is the last book of the Old Testament. After Malachi, there is about a 430 year gap in the Bible, until the New Testament.

thirty-three years as the Mortal Messiah.

Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'.

They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.

There was a place where all light tends to go, and I reckon that was heaven.