Averette Tryon Quotes & Sayings

I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for them. And trouble is, people will do almost anything to get on it. You know, confess to crimes they haven't committed. You don't exist unless you're on TV. Yeah, it's a validation process. — Hunter S. Thompson

To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much legend and history as Nineveh, or Coeur de Lion, or Jack Sheppard. — William Makepeace Thackeray

We can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves. — Kimberly Kirberger

I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students. — Rafe Esquith

Once I start writing, I can't stop. — Chuck Palahniuk

When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous. — Peter Coyote