Andrew Anagnost Quotes

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

My dreams are all follies.

Money? I lost all taste for it.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

At 8, I made a pact with God.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

If they can`t do it in California, it can`t be done anywhere.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life`s greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

The world is a penal institution.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don`t betray each other.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I`m not that interested in people.

I will know him by his eyes.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

My childhood was appalling.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

I have anonymously helped many thousands.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

I often reread books I have written.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

Women`s Lib? I couldn`t stand it.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

I converse with my dog through ESP.

I`ve always enjoyed poor health.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?