Don > Don's Quotes

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

“He brushed his teeth carefully and used dental floss. He tried to take good care of his teeth because he was his own dentist now. Some things could go to pot, but not his health, he thought. Then why don’t you stop pouring alcohol into yourself? he thought. Why don’t you shut the hell up? he thought.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“I’ve long since lost my taste for good coffee,” he says. “I much prefer the kind that sooner or later, if you keep on drinking it, your hands will begin to shake and the whites of your eyes will turn yellow.”
― Joseph Mitchell, Joe Gould's Secret