J. Raymond Quotes

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.

The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.

Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer.

I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on the page and you don't want to stop.

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.

If you're interested in expanding your network, you can't go wrong with Twitter. You don't need to be a celebrity to have fun and grow your network with Twitter.

TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

We have an exceptional natural wealth that is environmentally friendly.

Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. He made quarterbacks nervous.and rightly so.

I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put down on paper and fantasy allows me to include a lot of what I feel.

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.

Free enterprise is the sure and so far the only known way of constantly improving the well-being of mankind.

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

She won't give him back his look.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.

The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.

I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

If you don't leave, I'll get somebody who will.

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.

A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

If you liked a book, don't meet the author

Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.

You can't have everything, even in California

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents.

They write them long because they can't write them short.