Intransferibles Quotes & Sayings

The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch — Bram Stoker

So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime. — Robert Lacey

People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all. — Katie Price

I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful. — Vinnie Tortorich

I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing. — Fred D'Aguiar

I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where they're going to end up. It's interesting territory for fiction. — K.M. Soehnlein

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for. — Frances Moore Lappe

I'm not against ambition and reach, but if you can say it in four lines, why waste your time saying it in more? Challenge the world by all means, but it's bad for your poetry to take steroids. — Michael Longley