Quotes About Author

I never consciously think of writing a so-called Christian novel. I don't think Albert Camus ever thought of writing an existentialist novel, either. I think of getting at, of building, a story.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at WindsorWith a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?

A vast meaning is unfolded in each line, with such power that a sentence only a line long would suffice for a whole life's training.

Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.

Koga:"You got a problem with that muttface?" Inuyasha: Did you just call me a mutt?" Koga:"No, you're right. That would be an insult to canines.

After all, when the behavior of another person leaves you no choice but to kill them, their murder is simply involuntary suicide.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

Secure the hearts of the nation's menopausal millions, Eileen knew, and no jury would dare convict her.

The ends for which we fight are changing from the hard objectives that decide a political outcome to those of establishing conditions in which the outcome may be decided.

Glittery prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity.

Carter This is the LAPD. We're the most hated cops in all the free world. My own mama's ashamed of me. She tells everybody I'm a drug dealer.

I'm still romantic. But the modern world has no time for romance. It's all done on computers now.

when I was a boy, reading was my true religion. It helped me discover my soul.

provides the right sort of tone and setting. Mr Oliver, an Anglo

if rents were paid when they fell due, but terrible

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

description is deadly to a prose poem.

I never liked the term "experimental writing," but what else is a prose poem? Having written a number of them, I still don't know how they're written.

I believe Finland's economy is based on Moomin juice.

We should qualify this observation to say that a constitution is more likely to last if it does not embody a misfit economic theory.