E.W. Storch > E.W.'s Quotes

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

“One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”
― John Cowper Powys

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“His voice was that kind you get from smoking three packs a day and then spending all night howling at the moon.”
― E.W. Storch, Impenetrable Falsehoods: A Small Book of Small Fiction

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“Face front, true believers!”
― Stan Lee

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“If I close my eyes, I can feel his body, in that way that you do when someone is near, a faint yet intent electric pulsing.”
― E.W. Storch, Impenetrable Falsehoods: A Small Book of Small Fiction

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Wil Wheaton Says: Don't be a dick.”
― Wil Wheaton

“Things every person should have:

•A nemesis.
•An evil twin.
•A secret headquarters.
•An escape hatch.
•A partner in crime.
•A secret identity.”
― Wil Wheaton

“Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.”
― Wil Wheaton, Just a Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales of the Search for Life, Love, and Fulfillment Beyond the Starship Enterprise

“He used to tell me stories while we fished. Ones he made up, I guess, I’m not sure. One year, a beaver family dammed the brook and built a lodge. He made up stories about them, very 'Wind in the Willows' stuff. He used to tell me that the fish were water spirits, or lost mermaids, or nixies; it was always something different. So, we always threw the fish back. He said it would bring us luck.”
― E.W. Storch, Impenetrable Falsehoods: A Small Book of Small Fiction

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc