Richard > Richard's Quotes

“Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident

“Nothing to say. I used to be a ghostwriter for a publisher.’
‘Medieval stuff?’
‘Eighty-page love stories. You have this guy, untrustworthy but good in bed, and this girl, radiant but innocent. In the end they fall madly in love and it’s incredibly boring. The story doesn’t say when they split up.’
‘Of course not,’ said Mathias”
― Fred Vargas

“He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
― Lester Bangs

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott