Novelist Quotes

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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