Christopher Quotes
There is no need to put your heart in a bottle, then you will die. - Ty from Stolen
People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.
A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.
Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.
In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike
Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."
The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.
It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.
The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.
You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.
The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!
How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.
Peace comes not because your prayer has been answered exactly as you prayed it, but because you shifted your focus and the burden of responsibility on to Him.
You shouldn't let him hit you so much" observed saphira "Yes I realize that'" he growled. "Do you want me to knock him over for you?" "No...not today.
There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
You don't hurry a thinker, and you don't talk to him when he's thinking. It's just inconsiderate.
If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.'
Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.
I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."
In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
