Quotes About Author

If the maladministration of the democracy ever brings about a revolutionary crisis, and if monarchical institutions ever become practicable in the United States, the truth of what I advance will become obvious.

The States in which the citizens have enjoyed their rights longest are those in which they make the best use of them.

The American republics have no standing armies to intimidate a discontented minority; but as no minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt.

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul.

In America the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever steps beyond them.

But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs . . . an adult with ideas.

He was afflicted with an education and a sense of humor. He was inspired by a purpose. He was armed with a phone book. He was doomed.

The man who upsets the morphology of society is a cancer. The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

It was necessary for Yeovil to re-establish control or effect a compromise.

Mayo was again awakened by the clatter of dispossessed ducks.

History is a novel whose author is the people

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race.

She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow.

Within such places, some of those on sale were considered more desirable if they possessed abnormalities, exactly what the Professor wished to find.

Have I gone mad? I'm afraid so. You're entirely Bonkers. But I will tell you a secret, All the best people are.

Pauline had restored order after the ordeal of the birth. She had swallowed her revulsion—what a mess it had made—restored order, made things right for the homecoming.

And then George approaching, his hand stuck to his hat and the hat bent into the onslaught. She

Why not?" but without conviction, confirming for them both that this was a sudden impulse that most likely would not last out the afternoon. "What if I come by at seven?" he said.

fact, grandiosity is the defense against depression, and depression is the defense against the deep pain over the loss of the self that results from denial.

Six years after I began to paint I wrote my first three books in three years (The Drama of the Gifted Child, For Your Own Good, and Thou Shalt Not Be Aware), in which I tried to explain the connections between denied suffering in childhood and adult violence.

Roly Grain, his name was, and he does not have any further part in what I'm writing now, in spite of his troll's name, because this is not a story, only life.