Novellis Staten Quotes & Sayings

The piece was like an elegant interrogation made of tangled yarn, a query from a well-dressed man in a casket, not yet dead. It proceeded slowly, like a careful equation, and then not: if x = y, if major = minor, if death equals part of life and life part of death, then what is the sum of the infinite notes of this one phrase? It asked, answered, reasked, its moody asking a refinement of reluctance or dislike. — Lorrie Moore

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid. — Doris Lessing

I write what I like to read. This guarantees me at least one fan. — Johnny Worthen

Money has yet to make anyone rich. — Seneca The Younger

My handwriting as an angsty teen was appalling, yet somehow better than it is now. — Anna Kendrick

The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch,Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill.Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch,And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill. — Robert Henryson