Kv Len Autor Quotes & Sayings

As a species, tragedy dwells within us all. We push it to the back of our thoughts, but it is never so far gone that it cannot return, crashing and writhing into our souls: a rogue wave overturning a boat on a calm day. Tragedy is never more than a breath away. We hide from its certainty and go about our lives as though time can be wasted. Somewhere deep inside ourselves we know that we tell ourselves lies. We know that someday everything we love will be gone. — Logan Kain

Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and intangible, and might best be described, I think, as a semi-fictional narrative that is in constant need of writing, editing, and preserving. — Neel Burton

There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service. — Don Novello

Do I hope in vain that you have been sent to me for a help in doubt and need? — J.R.R. Tolkien

A party without cake is just a meeting — Julia Child

I can't say enough about 'OLTL's' strong cast. — Kassie DePaiva

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today. — Dwight Howard

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death. — Jean Harris

The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good. — Peter Higgs

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash. — John Fowles

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it. — G.K. Chesterton

I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someone believe in a ghost or a demon or a vampire in the face of that, you are doing well. From my own personal point of view, I don't think just blood and guts is enough. At least, it isn't for me. Maybe it will turn someone's stomach; but, I'm not sure that is literature or even entertainment. — Stephen King

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you. — Natalie Goldberg