A.Z. Black Quotes

By the year 2000 every secretary will have a favorite typeface.

It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.

I'm not, sexy, am I? God knows, I've tried

I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy.

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game'.

I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I'm not big enough.

Be generous with the credit for your achievements. The more other people feel that they are gaining from your success, the more they will continue to help and others will want to join in

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.

I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.

Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?

I like guys with a nice smile. I know it's cliche, but it's so true! I like a guy with a nice smile and nice eyes.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!

Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

Owning a dog is slightly less expensive than being addicted to crack.

What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I’d be alive when it rolled around.

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

Who would you be but who you are?

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others

Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?

Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.