T.C. Boyle Quotes

When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

The English are worried about the Euro being brought in because of loss of national identity and rising prices. In Scotland, people are just worried in case they have to close Poundstretcher.

I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how it currently works - in order to change it.

I think that's the key [of communication] - to not use one method of communication for all people.

I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach.

Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.

I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

I'm always trying to do something different and trying to keep myself amused.

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature.

i want to pull very long, multi-colored strings out of my brain and place them next to a bowl of doritos at a party

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

I love receiving fan mail.

I'm so proud of my son for being so funny!

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

Don't you think its quite weird for Prince Harry, getting really stoned and seeing your grans face appearing on your money.

It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to work out which gunshot is the starting pistol.

Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.

I like storms. I like thunder and lightning. What I do during a storm is shag my girlfriend and pretend that we're taking part in the conception of the Antichrist.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

Congratulations on passing your test! Your HIV positive.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

Congratulations you're 18!... On a list of 20 people I'm going to kill.

The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.

But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.