In The Shadow Of The Banyan Quotes & Sayings

Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,
never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

1a) Never throw shit at an armed man.
1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man. — Larry Niven

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps it's natural for a father, for every parent, to see in his child all that's unspoiled and good. — Vaddey Ratner

We haven't the time to take our time. — Eugene Ionesco

Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset — Tony Dovale

Something radically new, the producer tells me. Think Virginia Woolf with dead bodies and car chases. — James Sallis