Mutnam Quotes & Sayings

We do not have much but we give more. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the "perfect dad"? I shudder at thinking what that may be. — Bret Easton Ellis

The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places. — Kevin Kwan

It happens just because we need
to want and to be wanted too,
when love is here or gone
to lie down in the darkness
and listen to the warm. — Rod McKuen

What the fuck does it take to show you motherfuckers, what does it fucking take what do you want how much do you want because I am willing and I'll stand before you and I'll raise my arms and give you my chest and throat and wait, and I've been so old for so long, for you, for you, I want it fast and right through me
Oh do it, do it motherfuckers, do it do it you fuckers finally, finally, finally. — Dave Eggers

Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18. — Vikram Seth

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts. — George Santayana

My mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw — Charles Bukowski