Christopher Quotes

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Germany is dictating its policy in Europe

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.

I'm really a romantic at heart.

She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.

The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.

People, generally, suck.

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

I love you above all things, even pie.

You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think. -Angela the Herbalist

He was a writer and words were his weapons.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Xander Harris: Hair. Red. Red is good. Fire engines are red. Porsche's are red.

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

I've won Satan's lottery.

You sure about this writer thing son?

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.

The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.

Everyone's a racist. It's the one thing that makes us all the same.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me.

I want you to see that the person I glimpsed running beside the camel, running to save my life, is the person you can choose to be.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

Compliment but do not covet.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

In my family, goodness is just badness before its had something to drink.

Where are you going?" I asked. "The middle of nowhere." "I thought this was it." "Nah." You shook your head. "This is just the edge.

God bless America. But God, please help Canada.

...she is too beautiful, I think, to not be inherently evil.