Patrick Loafman > Patrick's Quotes

“If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?”
― Confucious

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The author of "Somewhere Upriver" sometimes shoves a lopsided word into an otherwise balanced sentence, thinking it's a kind of verbal jazz.”
― Patrick Loafman

“The author steals a nervous twitch from a redhead on the bus, pads an entire novel around it.”
― Patrick Loafman