Quotes About Richard

purity of a sort is easily had where responsibilities are not assumed. The

Just call me the Boswell of the Krull Gang.

Is he worse, then, than the publisher who filled ubiquitous racks with lust and death wishes? Really, now, search your soul, lovie – is the vampire so bad?

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

Paul Lippman's American Typewriters: A Collector's Encyclopedia.

Yet this rumble is cartoon thunder.

Long answers need long time. And long time is exactly what's vanishing.

Down one branch, she lifts the glass to her lips, toasts the room—To Tachigali versicolor—and drinks.

the greatest mercy fiction gives: proof that the worst the two of them have done to each other is just another tale worth reading together, at the end of the day.

It surprises Adam, the proximity of coziness to terror.

His face clouds over with incomprehension. You would know. You'd know, if you saw a pike.

Orthodoxy builds a rococo logical palace on loose empirical sand.

By 1933, with a departmental budget above $2,000 a year, ten times the budget of most Italian physics departments

Early in 1945 Oak Ridge began shipping bomb-grade U235 to Los Alamos.

Do a violent people want, create and need a violent God, or has the textual presentation of a sometimes violent God legitimated and even blessed our own violent history?

Marcus J. Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time

In this instance, she understood completely what the endorsement of a fool was worth.

They might have been interesting if the people beneath had done the writing, but the living had nothing worthwhile to say about the dead.

She held the robe together with both hands—there was so much to cover that it took both hands—and stepped aside as I walked

S. Highway 91 to a small cocktail lounge called Cosmos, just past the Algiers and on the opposite side of the Strip.

cat in A Christmas Carol, and peering

I lit a cigarette and said to Feldspen, "That sounds to me like the biggest extortion this side of the Federal Income Tax. Are you sure the guy was serious?

And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.

imperial dream of a feudal age that made men enslave others.