J. Raymond Quotes

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Don’t question in the dark what God showed you in the light.

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.

He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

The most beautiful curve is a rising sales graph.