Doug > Doug's Quotes

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”
― Mark Twain

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
― Bernard Shaw

“A dead body revenges not injuries.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“You have a choice. Live or die.
Every breath is a choice.
Every minute is a choice.
Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
― Stephen King