Christopher Quotes

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

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.

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.

Fandom can keep something alive, and fandom can take it down.

No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold.

When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. Some say, it's the only time we're perfect. You're also born covered in blood and placenta. No one gets nostalgic about that.

For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure.

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

At the end of the Peterson trial, my daughter turns to me and she goes, 'Daddy, are you going to kill Mommy?' 'Oh, honey - that's up to mommy, isn't it?

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.

I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.

They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.

He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.

A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

I'm the sort of loser who succeeds really well and then drops a turd in the punch bowl.

That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.