David Quotes

You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.

Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home

It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

Every source of blessing is a point of attack.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

Jesus paid a high price for your peace. Don't give it away.

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.

I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.

The better you get, the better you better get.

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.

... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It’ll be time to start a Web site soon, where you’ll type out everything in one huge paragraph.