Alan Quotes

There's something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility, like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.

The best way to be more like me is to be more like you.

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.

I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.

The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master, it's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.

Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.

You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

The law is agnostic about truth.

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.