Aetherial Dust Quotes & Sayings

Ka speaks and the wind blows! — Stephen King

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. — Lewis Thomas

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out. — Charles Bukowski

To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run. — Dalai Lama

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised. — James Bovard

I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form. — Chuck Palahniuk

Oh, Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poe's and Bea Dante's, and what little girl would not like to whirl in a circular skirt and scanties? — Vladimir Nabokov

The exciting part about life is finding out what you can't do, because you don't find out until you try to do something and you're stopped. — Kyle Kinane

There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are. — W. Somerset Maugham

I tried to smile, but gravity kept tugging at the corners of my mouth. — Tania Penn

California: The west coast of Iowa. — Joan Didion

It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting. — Elisabeth Moss

You can enlarge the conversation by taking your focus off the negative and noticing all the things that are going right, taking a stand for the goodness of humanity. — Pam Grout

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. — Eric Hoffer

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day. — Aimee Bender