Wayne Clark > Wayne's Quotes

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

“Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”
― Henry Miller

“Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., A Man Without a Country

“Souls had a way of talking. His wanted to shake him up, turn him upside down like a piggy bank to see if anything valuable dropped out.”
― Wayne Clark, He & She

“Relationships weren’t ocean liners with stabilizers. They were flimsy affairs. No, they were more dangerous than canoes. They were kayaks, two-seaters that overturned with every careless comment, each intimation of indifference. You spend half the time upside down, under water. It takes a lot of skill to get right-side up before the relationship drowns.”
― Wayne Clark, He & She

“It was you who put the revolver on my bedside table. I just pulled the trigger.”
― Wayne Clark, He & She

“Then he became an adult, technically at least. And there were moments, danceable ones, but they came farther and farther apart. There were long stretches when life was almost flatlining. Only sex could fine tune the fibrillations of his heart. The pulse would return.”
― Wayne Clark, He & She