windchimes098’s most recent Quotables

The worst book in a trilogy is the fourth.

Sticking feathers up your butt doesnt make you a chicken

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

Definition of a classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.

Writing a novel is a tiny candle in a dark, swirling world. It brings light and warmth and hope to the lucky few who, against insufferable odds and despite a juggernaut of irritations, find themselves in the right place to hold it.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

The only way out is through.

I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.

Kids can spot a moral coming from a mile off.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

The right word might be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

All generalizations are false, including this one.