Quotes of: Serving-others Keyword

You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.

The Darkest Part of the Forest

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (“The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)

Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

Remember always where the dreaming ends and the being begins. Draw a line for everything you care about and then step over it.

Double Dutch and Other Stories

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Dusk and Other Stories

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Double On-Call and Other Stories

If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything.

Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

You're never too old to laugh at stories about love and sex.

Dating and Mating Secrets of Seniors and Other Short Stories of Love and Sex

There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.

Death in the Woods and Other Stories

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

Well," a female voice said. "What have we here?" "Here," Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, "we have a teenager. And she's pissed.

Every Other Day

My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.

Essays with a Purpose

It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers.

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues us in our own eyes and the eyes of others.

Forgotten Fire

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and the junk food as far away as possble.

Fuck Calories and Other Dietary Heresies

Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.

Father Crow and Other Poems

Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving.

In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

God Emperor of Dune