Literature Quotes - Page 45

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

The offender never pardons.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.