Alan Quotes

What you go through is nothing compared to who you are.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

We're a nation of sheep. If you go out and look up at the sky, people around you will start looking up at the sky.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is.

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

If you are not getting better, you are getting left behind.

It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons

How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.

Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend.

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.