Morongo Quotes & Sayings

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air. — Torquato Tasso

Most, I loved James Baldwin's essays. There was to a Baldwin essay a metropolitan elegance I envied, a refusal of the livid. In Baldwin I found a readiness to rise to prophetic wrath, something like those ministers, and yet, once more, to bend down in tenderness, to call grown men and women "baby" (a whiff of the theater). Watching Baldwin on television - I will always consider the fifties to have been a sophisticated time - fixed for me what being a writer must mean. Arching eyebrows intercepted ironies, parenthetically declared fouls; mouthfuls of cigarette smoke shot forth ribbons of exactitude. — Richard Rodriguez

Odd that your heart didn't simply stop when it hurt so much. — Cornelia Funke

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other. — Salman Rushdie

I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done. — Ted Danson

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say. — Haruki Murakami

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. — Nick Harkaway

In the 60's there was a look. In the 70's there was a look, and in the 80's. Now, it's a free-for-all. — Betsey Johnson

In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing. — Jimmy Fallon