She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars.
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.
People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might be civilized after all.
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a hom...
Is Doctor Proteus on? said Kroner’s secretary. Doctor Kroner is in. Just a moment, said Katharine. Doctor Proteus, Doctor Kroner is in and will speak to you. All right, I’m on. Doctor Proteus is on th...
Other people say, Hello or Goodbye! We always say, Excuse me, no matter what we’re doing.’ He threw up his hands. ‘No more apologies! So we’re poor! All right, we’re poor! This is America! And America...
I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with
I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened unto a system of gears whose teeth have been filed off at random. Such a snaggle-toothed thought...
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
I thought that was pretty good. So then I disturbed my father at his typewriter, and asked him what my heritage was from his side of the family. I didn’t know then what sperm was, and so wouldn’t unde...
It was a perfectly good word – until Eliot got hold of it. It’s spoiled for me now. Eliot did to the word love what the Russians did to the word democracy. If Eliot is going to love everybody, no matt...
And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our...
Lucky me , Lucky mud
My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.
I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and sn...
Go shoot a bear. Concentrating hard on the illusion, Paul was able to muster a feeling of positive gratitude for Anita’s presence, to thank God for a woman at his side to help with the petrifying amou...
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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