Quotes About Author

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun.

A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.

Beyond Brookledge may be the most incredible weekend of entertainment I've experienced in my life.

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.