John Farrell > John's Quotes

“Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.”
― Lincoln Steffens

“There is no happiness. There is only concentration.”
― Al Pacino

“My youthful dream of becoming a writer has been realized. I am so pleased I did not let my young self down.”
― Jack Gantos

“Announcing your plans is a good way to make God laugh.”
― Al Swearengen

“Poetry is nothing more than an intensification or illumination of common objects and everyday events until they shine with their singular nature, until we can experience their power, until we can follow their steps in the dance, until we can discern what parts they play in the Great Order of Love. How is this done? By fucking around with the syntax.”
― Tom Robbins

“No one, ever, can give the exact measure of his needs, his apprehensions, or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when we want to move the stars to pity.”
― Gustave Flaubert