Escoe Conference Quotes & Sayings

Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated ... Family, friends, and co-workers, fearful of the dark, are reluctant to participate in our shadow experience and may urge us to be done with the dark before it is done with us. — Susan Wittig Albert

Having saddled yourself with laws that you *assume* will be broken, you've never found anything to do that makes better sense than punishing people for doing exactly what you expected them to do in the first place. For ten thousand years you've been making and multiplying laws that you fully expect to be broken, until now I suppose you must have literally millions of them, many of them broken millions of times a day.[...]The very officials that you elect to uphold the laws break them. And at the same time your pillars of society somehow find it possible to become indignant over the fact that some people have little respect for the law. — Daniel Quinn

It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

And is it better to know?" he asked me.
"I can't tell you. But once you know, it's impossible to go back. — Diane Setterfield

No matter how you make much of your nom de guerre,remember your nomen! — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I don't take advances for my books. — Andrew Vachss