Jason Purdy > Jason's Quotes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”
― Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts

“I've always been able to vomit as silently as a ninja; it's a questionable talent and a poor party trick.”
― Jason Purdy, Cigarette

“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“Maybe he should turn around. Go back and tell them that’s what life was, a long series of things that didn’t go down the way you thought they would.
Hell with it. Either they’d figure it out or they wouldn’t. Most people never did.”
― James Sallis, Drive

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Home is where they want you to stay longer.”
― Stephen King, Revival

“God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote