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When I think of highly plotted novels I think of detective fiction or mystery fiction, the kind of work that always produces a few dead bodies. But these bodies are basically plot points, not worked-out characters. The book's plot either moves inexorably toward a dead body of flows directly from it, and the more artificial the situation the better. Readers can play off their fears by encountering the death experience in a superficial way. A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the... Don DeLillo
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them. Charles Bukowski
Josh Billings quote: "Genius after all ain't anything more then elegant common sense."
Genius after all ain't anything more then elegant common sense. Josh Billings
Walt Whitman quote: "There is no God any more divine than Yourself."
There is no God any more divine than Yourself. Walt Whitman
But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do? John Maynard Keynes
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin
Charles Bukowski quote: "People with no morals often considered themselves more free,..."
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love. Charles Bukowski
Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know. Thornton Wilder
For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind. Alexis de Tocqueville
Aldous Huxley quote: "The more stitches, the less riches."
The more stitches, the less riches. Aldous Huxley
The nonbelievers need the believers. They are desperate to have someone believe." "As belief shrinks from the world, people find it more necessary than ever that someone believe...Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes. Don DeLillo
Arthur Miller quote: "After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments,..."
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive. Arthur Miller
...he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might have worked out for him... Don DeLillo
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it. Friedrich Nietzsche

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