Quotes About Author

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.

The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.

all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful

I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.

I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

You know your Lamborghini is on fire, right?

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.