2,092 quotes found
“Is there a war on cops? Is there a war on the Black man? Who is going to call a cease fire?”
“Stop reacting to the stereotypes and start responding to the individual.”
“The objective for each individual when you are pulled over by an officer of the law is to - Survive the Stop!”
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very h...”
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
“The mind reels.”
“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.”
“What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?”
“I will say further, as an officer of an enormous international conglomerate, that nobody who is doing well in this economy ever even wonders waht is really going on.We are chimpanzees. We are orang...”
“Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.”
“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on f...”
“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didnt have to write at all anymore if I didnt want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I dont know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, wh...”
“profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.”
“Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy”
“Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.”
“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.”
“A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.”
