Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Humor is my default mode. "

Related Quotes:

" From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. "

" The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. "

" The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. "

" Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently. "

" Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. "

" Sex is like money; only too much is enough. "

" For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque. "

" I think books should have secrets, like people do. "

" Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. "

" There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. "

" For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States. "

" By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. "

" It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules. "

" When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. "

" Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. "

" Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. "

" A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic. "

" My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves. "

" A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is. "

" All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so. "

" Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot. "

" Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. "

" I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality. "

" It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation. "

" Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. "

" When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin. "

" We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. "

" Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant. "

" A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. "

" Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's. "