Novelist Quotes

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.

Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

No one pays me to be nice.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Life is like an analogy.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

When all else fails, complicate matters.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.