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If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in that throe -- why shouldn't writers be able to go bonkers and still stay sane? Stephen King
Henry David Thoreau quote: "It's circumstantial evidence, like finding a trout in the milk."
It's circumstantial evidence, like finding a trout in the milk. Henry David Thoreau
Stephen King quote: "Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up."
Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up. Stephen King
Michael Crichton quote: "You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps..."
You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Michael Crichton
By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. Woody Allen
Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate--unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land John Dewey
I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer. Augusten Burroughs
The soldier—that is, the great soldier—of to-day is not a romantic animal, dashing at forlorn hopes, animated by frantic sentiment, full of fancies as to a love-lady or a sovereign; but a quiet, grave man, busied in charts, exact in sums, master of the art of tactics, occupied in trivial detail; thinking, as the Duke of Wellington was said to do, most of the shoes of his soldiers; despising all manner of clat and eloquence; perhaps, like Count Moltke, ‘silent in seven languages’. Walter Bagehot
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go..."
Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels.But.Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood.It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd. Jodi Picoult
The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had. Steven Wright
Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment, long flakes and blades of light in the dusty water sliding away like optic strobes where motes sifted and spun. Cormac McCarthy
John Cage quote: "It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating..."
It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else. John Cage
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. Leonardo da Vinci
[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking. Paul Bowles

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