Mark Riechers > Mark's Quotes

“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil. Before the settlers, before the Indians... the evil was there... waiting.”
― William S. Burroughs

“When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.”
― A.W. Tozer

“The only value of wasted time is knowledge.”
― Monica Drake, Clown Girl

“I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
― Bill Watterson

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
― George W. Bush

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

“In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.”
― David Foster Wallace