Redjepi Quotes & Sayings

No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one of the most impactful influences on American writers, even if they don't know it. That's largely because she makes economy seem so easy. You could read several of her stories into a friend's voicemail box before you were cut off (and you should). You could fit one of her stories in this column. Some you could write on your palm. — Jonathan Messinger

I'll wait until we're both old and gray, chasing you around the retirement home while pushing my walker if that's what it takes. — Ann Mayburn

A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance ... like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying. — Ken Kesey

Is that your face or did your neck just throw up? — Cherise Sinclair

If two people can love each other without even speaking the same language, age and numbers are even easier to overcome. — Jaejoong

I am afraid to die, though,' I whispered to myself. These turned out to be my last words. They were not very impressive words, but it was too late to change them. — Haruki Murakami

What you do not sow, cannot grow. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality. — Eric Liu

The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice. — Jeremy Stoppelman

She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse. — George Orwell

One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Playwrights are naturally wary and protective - God, who's more protective than a playwright? You read a play, the playwright wants to hear from you immediately. — Gene Saks

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, in other words ... — Robert Breault