Manhattan Transfer Novel Quotes & Sayings

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other. — Charles De Lint

There was existence in oblivion; there is you in oblivion. — Pushpa Rana

Truth cannot be imparted," said Kline. "It must be inflicted. — Brian Evenson

The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself. — Evan Esar

The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly. — Gwen Bristow

For me, the good death includes being prepared to die, with my affairs in order, the good and bad messages delivered that need delivering. The good death means dying while I still have my mind sharp and aware; it also means dying without having to endure large amounts of suffering and pain. The good death means accepting death as inevitable, and not fighting it when the time comes. This is my good death, but as legendary psychotherapist Carl Jung said, "It won't help to hear what I think about death." Your relationship to mortality is your own. — Caitlin Doughty

And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.
I don't say anything right away, because I just want one minute to look at him before I give him my last secret.
And then I tell him.
Your garage. — Katja Millay

When horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people. — Virginia Axline

The subconscious is a doorway to the infinite. — Laird Barron