January 2011
20 posts
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a...
– Edward Abbey
A Prayer for the Traveler
May your trails be crooked, lonesome, dangerous,...
– Edward Abbey
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
– Lewis Carroll
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
– Jules Feiffer
Would that the Roman people had a single neck.
– Caligula
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
– Lord Byron
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
– Edgar Allan Poe
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the...
– Benjamin Franklin
Television: A medium. So called because it’s neither rare nor well done.
– Ernie Kovacs
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
– Jack London
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging...
– William James
The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
– Dick Nixon
I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his...
– Carl Sandberg
Translation is the art of failure.
– Umberto Eco
It’s not the size of the ship; it’s the size of the waves.
– Little Richard
Writing is just thinking through my fingers.
– Isaac Asminov