21 quotes found
“A corruption of intentions.”
“Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.”
“When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.”
“Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.”
“Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.”
“there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons!”
“You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, ye...”
“Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (Gene...”
“The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.”
“Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.”
“The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks or something tells it that the remembering can be handled.”
“I get annoyed when a self-indulgent writer just shows off what he knows but doesn't really tell a story. To me storytelling is first a craft. Then if you're lucky, it becomes an art form. But first...”
“And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.”
“Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.”
“She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.”
“There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running unless it is a woman.”
“I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.”
“I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more.”
“Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.”
“The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.”
