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“The power of god has given men the ability to realize that he does not exist.”
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“What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?”
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“It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible--because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering.”
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“I have never felt so much good female energy around me. I find that I can't take my eyes off them. I'm 99 percent sure I will leave this movie a lesbian.”
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“I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.”
Source : "Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders". Book by Greg King, 2000.
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“Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole interest" was "instant profit," not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn't be in book publishing at all.”
Source : "A simple, mildly incredulous philippic". nielsenhayden.com. April 7, 2010.
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“The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.”
Source : Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.256, Vintage
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“Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels Emptiness. Free from the futile strivings and the cares which dim existence to a realm of mist, happy is he who wings an upward way on mighty pinions to the fields of light; whose thoughts like larks spontaneously rise into the morning sky; whose flight, unchecked, outreaches life and readily comprehends the language of flowers and of all mute things.”