Maroneys Foreign Quotes & Sayings

I made a point of answering the question I received with some frequency from journalists, Do you think books can change people's lives? (which really meant, Do you actually think anything you could write could mean anything to anyone?), with a little airtight thought experiment in which I asked the interviewer to imagine the sort of person he might be if all of the literature he'd read in his life were somehow excised from his mind, his mind and soul, and as the journalist contemplated this nuclear winter I sat back with a self-satisfied smile, saved again from facing the truth. — Nicole Krauss

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice. — Alain Robert

She knew that who you are is a stone set deep inside you. You can spend all your life trying to dig that stone out, or you can build around it. Your choice. Sitting there in bed, she thought about — Sarah Addison Allen

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine. — Stephen L. Carter

Why bother to change, if you can't change into a wolf? — Charlaine Harris

I'm painting moments. Unrepeatable, singular moments of light. — Christopher Moore

Be a light unto yourself; betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves. — Buddha Shakyamuni