Benito Taibo Quotes & Sayings

Sunlight Chisels out every angle, swale, and creature on the surface, and ties you right to everything by your eyesight. The sky usually shines so blue it will make your eyes hurt. The ground glows a fine gold and the sky cuts right into the horizon like a blue knife into a warm loaf of bread. — Rex Fuller

The truth that writers secretly harbor is that all books are failures. We try to do something that can't be done. Words. Is that all we rely on? Smudgy ink marks on a page? Pallid wisps and blotches? Text as scaffolding trying to hold up worlds? Actually, no, it's not all we rely on. What's worse is our reliance on the reader. A writer is forever locked in an interdependent relationship. It's like building a bridge from opposite sides of a river - our flimsy words and their frail, overreaching imaginations. The bridge will never meet in the middle. It's not possible. Sometimes you haven't even decided on the same river. The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis missed in the middle by a matter of inches the first time around. They tried again and made it. Writers know we never will. — Julianna Baggott

It was the only time I'd ever heard someone ask, "Can you grab me the spoon?" as opposed to "a spoon," which at least connoted there was more than one. — Sarah Dessen

You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team — Don Meyer

There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever. — George Borrow

If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics. — Teresa Heinz

American pop group N'SYNC's. I listened to it endlessly in my dad's car. This also made me wanna be a singer. — Seungri

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. — Clarence Darrow

But you understand the relationship between pi and Gaussian curvature, right?
pg 264 — Danyl McLauchlan