Author Quotes

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

America is obsessed with youth. We all want to look young forever, and vampires do. They are caught in their prime, if that's when they've been turned. And they'll be that way forever.

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

I have gone to the forest.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.