John > John's Quotes

“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”
― Tom Waits

“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.”
― Mordecai Richler

“In the hospitality of war we left them their dead to remember us by.”
― Archilochus

“It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.”
― Will Munny

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives: for all the scents of green things growing, each breath is but an exhalation of the grave. Bodies jerk like puppet corpses, and hell walks laughing— Laughing”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane