David Quotes

I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!

A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

When a man plans, a woman laughs.

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.

What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

Words his soul danced to.

My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

Powerful people have no regrets.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

It takes a society to raise a generation.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

The happiness in our hearts is there for we dare to dream in light when the world tells us to scream in the darkness.

I will be the one to leave you.

If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.

Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile.

My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

Hate is the father of all evil.