Marcel Proust Quotes
What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.
Quotes to Explore
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I am a very selfish person.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
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I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
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All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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In a word, the heavy weight upon his spirits kept everything in order, not merely within his own system, but wheresoever the iron accents of the church clock were audible.
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I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.
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I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.
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This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.
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There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.
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What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.
