Gorney Quotes & Sayings

Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine. — Gwen Davis

For I am come a whirlwind of wasted things
and I will ride this tantrum back to God — Christian Wiman

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. — Murray Bookchin

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple. — Lucy Grealy

Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving? — David Foster Wallace

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population. — Robert Payne

There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach. They believed I could blow on a red traffic light and turn it green. — Erma Bombeck

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. — Margot Fonteyn

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be. — Haruki Murakami

This is our story to tell. You'd think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven't. I've never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever. — Jandy Nelson

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president. — James Baker

In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better. — Dennis L. McKiernan

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them. — Rose Tremain

Not everyone who sleeps, wakes up the next day. You are blessed.Be happy. — Manoj Arora