H.W. Charles Quotes

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

Everybody should customize their names.

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Don't drink fluoridated water...Fluoride is a corrosive poison which will produce harm on a long term basis.

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.

The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.

Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

If you want to create, you'll create.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

sometimes I hate you," she said.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Love breaks my bones and I laugh

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.