Happy 70th Quotes & Sayings

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level. — John Le Carre

The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced. — Ayn Rand

We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice. — Hierocles

The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist. — Steve Jobs

Approach the world with sympathy and compassion, just don't take any of it very seriously. — Kate Baggott

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside. — Haruki Murakami

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. — Sara Zarr

Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society. — Dalai Lama

Gentle reader, we see God through our assholes in the flash bulb of orgasm. — William S. Burroughs

I'm one of those people who knows how lucky she is. And every day, I look around the house, and I count my blessings. They're all there under that roof. — Sandra Bullock

I had to let her know that the reason she'd never heard of me was because I was famous. — Neal Stephenson