Trey Cooper > Trey's Quotes

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
― Langston Hughes

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
― David Foster Wallace

“...in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle