Quotes by : E.L. Doctorow

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer....

A book is not complete until it’s read

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name.....

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an....

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.

The images of things are not the things in themselves.

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.....

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father’s extended absences. ” Ragtime