Maistros Quotes & Sayings

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth the irrational. — Ayn Rand

The girl was a walking heartache and there was no doubt she could break what little of me there was left. — Ashlan Thomas

Because of pain you feel more and so you live more. — Bryant McGill

The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything in our literature. It startles. It stuns. It stupefies. No novel since CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES has done such justice to New Orleans. If Franz Kafka had been able to write like Peter Straub, this might have been the result. — Donald Harington

I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are free. — Luisa Tetrazzini

The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative. — Paul Wellstone

All my life I was the girl who everyone thought had everything or could get it. But the only thing I ever wanted was a man like you. You're the best man I've ever met, Mickey Donovan. And you're mine. — Kristen Ashley

Real truth is common knowledge in the world of living men. Men only get to asking about it when they have a hard time accepting what they already know. — Louis Maistros

People follow proven formulas in any business. — Phoebe Cates

Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself. — Kazuo Ishiguro

The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel. — Paul G. Tremblay

Louis Maistros has an original and dark vision, full of power. — Douglas Clegg

Money talks and I listen. — Toba Beta

Today a child told Santa Ken that he wanted his dead father back and a complete set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Everyone wants those Turtles. — David Sedaris

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example. — Tom Lehrer

Matters. Do you think, my daughters, that it is an easy matter to have to do business with the world, to live in the world, to engage in the affairs of the world, and, as I have said, to live as worldly men do, and yet inwardly to be strangers to the world, and enemies of the world, like persons who are in exile
to be, in short, not men but angels? — Teresa Of Avila