Famous Quotes & Sayings

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.

Douglas Coupland

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

I suppose, a person for whom freedom is the most important thing - intellectual freedom and, as far as possible, physical freedom.

Charles de Lint

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

Sue Johanson

They don't have the language or the skills or the knowledge - and if you put them all together, you have a complete communication block.

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Structures are fine as long as they are controlled by the people who actually work within the structures, but they're dicey even there.