Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

Michael Chabon

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

Manute Bol

If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.

John Shirley

I call attention to the dark side maybe a little bit for mutual catharsis but also to try to paint the universe as it is - both sides of it.

I do think there is passion and there is interest in hockey. Now the question is, can you translate that throughout a season. We think so.

I do write a little SF in my spare time.

Jacqueline Susann

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

Dick Bruna

However, my father was a publisher and it was expected that I would become a publisher as well - in his firm.

Michael Chabon

I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my collection. I didn't go back to them for fifteen years - until after Wonder Boys.

Dick Bruna

Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.

Beverly Cleary

Children want to do what the grownups do. Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

Barbara Deming

But if institutions of restraint might still be necessary, they should no longer be institutions of punishment at the same time.

Dick Bruna

But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.

Ted Nelson

I never saw a computer during that course, I merely looked at the catalogues and the magazines and here was a picture showing a map on a screen.

Tavis Smiley

I'm trying to get to a point here of how much progress we've made in this business. Were you able to find that diverse crew that you wanted?

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Marguerite Young

I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole life in three of four pages. I used that method.

Clarence Day

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.

Nora Roberts

I'll usually work until about four or five - take a short break mid day to run through the email that's come in or read and post on the boards.

Robert McCloskey

I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere.

Harry Mathews

I have to say my initial attraction to France, which happened on my first visit when I was a student at eighteen, was inexplicable.

Tavis Smiley

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy-I want to talk about the movie in a second-but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

Wally Lamb

I didn't know any schizophrenics. The most valuable information I got was from people with the disease and their family members.

Michael Chabon

It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.

Ted Nelson

I want to create, however, a new breed, a new kind of computer system that is much simpler that allows kids to programme once again.

Vincent Bugliosi

The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

Richard Grant

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

Michael Chabon

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.