I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is...
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.
When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it.
I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits.
People are too complicated to have simple labels.
Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!
We hold all people to unspoken rules about who and how they should be, how they should think, and what the should say. We say we hate stereotypes but take issue when people deviate from those...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Life there was hard and it made people hard.
You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....