John Van Druten Quotes

#1. I guess I always knew that our time together would be fleeting. Ephemeral.

Cynthia Hand

#2. Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

Frederik Pohl

#3. Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

Alexis Arguello

#4. I honor anybody who wants to be a man and do the work of becoming a man. I honor anyone who mindfully becomes a woman. That's cool. But, I really don't get how there's only two choices. There's no two of anything else in the entire universe; why should there only be two genders? I don't get it.

Kate Bornstein

#5. The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Milan Kundera

#6. Do we focus on pruning out all evil, or do we focus on growing love?

Sierra Simone

#7. I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.

John William Van Druten

#8. Hattie felt as if someone had reached inside her breast, grabbed her heart, and twisted it out of her body, only to discard it in the slop bucket.

Pamela Morsi