Quentin R. Bufogle > Quotes

“If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“99% of all problems can be solved by money -- and for the other 1% there's alcohol.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm unable to scratch; a dinner invitation from a cannibal; elevator music for a narcoleptic. Writing is the hope of lifting all boats by pissing in the ocean. Writing isn't something that makes me happy like a good cup of coffee. It's just something I do because not writing, as I've found, is so much worse.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision to understand that once it's pushed, it's over. Finito. They're not gonna have lunch with Jesus. Won't be deflowering 72 virgins on the great shag carpet of eternity, or reincarnated as a cow. I want someone making that decision who believes life on this Earth isn't just a dress rehearsal for something better -- but the only shot we get.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“I was eating a steak at a local restaurant last night, when a random woman said: "Y'know, you'd be much better off being a vegetarian." "Are you crazy?" I said, "The cow was a vegetarian and look what happened to it!”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“I must give myself permission not to like myself. It's ok. Plenty of other people don't like me either. And I have much higher standards.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Be thankful for the little you've got, and a little is all you're gonna get.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“People ask what's up with this writing business? What do I hope to accomplish? I tell 'em I'm just a brick mason; words are my bricks and I'm building a skyscraper -- one brick at a time.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“I wish all those who've found God, would tell the rest of us where he's been hiding.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Literature today is like elevator music for a narcoleptic.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“I was thinking of procrastinating today . . . but never got around to it.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“And so once again peace reigned in his kitchen cabinet. The voices he'd been hearing as he lay in bed stopped. His doctor took him off the Lithium. Tho every now and again he'd hear what seemed to be the sounds of love making emanating from the kitchen . . . and the muffled sobs of a can of refried beans. Probably just the Mexican couple in the apartment upstairs. (From "Kitchen Cabinet Confidential")”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Chester watched it shining clearly above the picnic grounds. Soon an astronaut would step down off the LEM of Apollo 11 and plant his foot on what had once been hallowed ground. Science would intrude on what for all known time had been the sole domain of poets and dreamers alone: the moon. After that, well -- one thing was for certain: no matter what they found up there, it would never again be as easy for a father to tell his young son that the mysterious ball of light that appeared in the heavens each night was really just a hunk of old cheese floating in the sky. Nothing would ever be that simple again.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, Horse Latitudes

“Better a starving eagle, than a well-fed pigeon.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“There are no sacred cows -- just ask Ronald McDonald.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“The Founding Fathers were unimpeachable in their wisdom: providing a Second Amendment allowing us to shoot any big mouth, motherfucker invoking the First Amendment.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, Horse Latitudes

“After listening to Rick Santorum, I'm now for late-term abortions (say up to age 53).”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“One thing I love about politicians; they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle