Brian Thornton > Brian's Quotes

“In his youth, [he] had believed everything was possible. Then in grief, he believed everything was impossible. And now. . . he felt that when you had lived enough of your life, there was no difference between the two.”
― Glen David Gold

“He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their own humanity.”
― Glen David Gold, Sunnyside

“There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.”
― Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil

“Prince looked ready to slug me. I almost wished he would. Like most Americans, I was a counter-puncher.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Instant Enemy

“There is a kind of economy in life. You don’t spend more than you have, or say more than you know, or throw your weight around more than necessary.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Instant Enemy