Quotes About Author

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

Never had a cup of coffee in my life. Dr Pepper is my caffeine delivery system of choice.

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self

While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.

Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.

My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.