R.J. Lawrence Quotes

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

If the Americans do move the embassy to Jerusalem, and eventually the rest of the world follows suit, it will mark the end of Palestinian hopes for a two-state solution.

If Donald Trump shows signs of backing out of Europe, the Russians might be willing to stay out of his confrontation with Iran. If he follows Obama's program in Europe, things might be different.

If Trump takes an aggressive anti-Iranian stand, I suspect it will complicate his relations with Russia; how much so, depends on what else Trump does, particularly about participation in NATO.

The question is: Will Trump's ego allow him to reconsider any negative moves that he now might have in mind? Such reconsideration is really out of character for him.

Consequences of acting in Donald Trump's usual egocentric, "I make the rules," way can be quite dangerous for all of us.

Under Trump, the US will give its blessing to Israeli imperialism and racism.

Donald Trump has no sympathy with underdogs. They, including the Palestinians, are just "losers." So he will bring words and action together as Netanyahu wishes.

With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably.

Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.

Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."

Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you.

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

The wonderful thing about sound is that it is invitational, so ultimately each person is going to find their own relation to the material.

If you want to kill off a child's interest in music, get them a recorder.

We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same.

Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.

Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.

I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love.