Mischia Bene Quotes & Sayings

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies. — Clare Boothe Luce

The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowed like yellow jelly-fish. A bus was approaching - a bus to Piccadilly, a bus to the never-never land - a bus to death or glory.
I found neither. I found something which haunts me still.
The great bus swayed as it sped. The black street gleamed. Through the window a hundred faces fluttered by as though the leaves of a dark book were being flicked over. And I sat there, with a sixpenny ticket in my hand. What was I doing! Where was I going?
("Same Time, Same Place") — Mervyn Peake

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. — David Levithan

You never say no to the opportunity to piss, to eat, or to get half an hour's shut-eye. — Neil Gaiman

He is a gross man-mountain balanced on strangely tiny feet. Not fat, vast. — Ian McDonald

A silence fell. Frogs in the night were calling, calling, calling. — Jonathan Franzen