Quotes About Author

here I was, eager for Learning and intellectual companionship—maybe even a disputation or two.

There was something deranged and distinctly midwestern about a station that programmed The Exorcist three days prior to Christmas.

What's the n-never-fail universal apology? 'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money.

Do you have any loose teeth?" The hissing demon asked, "What doessss that have to do with anything?" "They can be a choking hazard during the procedure.

That doesn't upset too many people, but the fact that accessibility restrictions don't enter into the picture has caused more than one otherwise pacifistic soul to contemplate distinctly unpacifistic actions.

What are those? - Teeth. Wood. - But w... - I like to bite them back.

Who is it? I called sweetly. It's Wilt Chamberlain. Open up so we can play one on one.

question on cross-examination to which they don't know the answer, but Stern's instinct is that there is an opportunity for the defense

spending semesters at MIT, where he was completing a doctorate in Game Theory.

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire? Um, maybe?

What about a hoverboard? It's waiting on the roof, of course. Dr. Cable snorted. What is it about you miscreants and those things?

I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

You don't think happy endings are stupid anymore? Your question is irrelevant, Imogen said. This isn't the end.

Alek: Am I that obvious? Deryn: No. Im just dead clever.

I'll tell him I astral-projected. Butt-head.

Nature can blow me.

Blurbs don't work anymore!" was another. "You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!" seemed at best debatable.

FAUST You seem to like eavesdropping. MEPHISTOPHELES I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

A part of that Power that, always wishing for Evil, only knows how to do Good. -Mephistopheles

Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future. (Foreword by Frederick Ungar in Elective Affinities, 1962, Ungar Publishing)

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the greatest and most genuine of pleasures to observe a great mind in sympathy with our own.