John Quotes
No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.
Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.
Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?
Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
The most important thing to the Christian community is not the environment but evangelism.
Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.
The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.
I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.
The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.
If you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you need to stop doing it. You aren’t living your truth.
I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.
Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.
I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
The best people in the world aren't those who never fail - but those who fail and learn something from it. I hope that your goal in life isn't to slide safely into death not having screwed up much.
To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.
Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?
