Zagon Quotes & Sayings

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms. — Jonathan Lethem

T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. I — Robin Rinaldi

God will allow evil only to the degree that it brings about the very opposite of what it intends. — Timothy Keller

Wait? Is she trying to intimidate me? Because if she is ... it just might work. Bitch be scary. — Victoria Scott

Because what if the three billion dollars were paid? What was to stop them from blowing up the cliff anyway? Or charging another three billion next week? Though it wasn't announced, the mayor had also decided that, deadline or no deadline, she wasn't going to give them a single penny of her or the city's money. Which, again, was exactly right, in my humble opinion. Terrorists needed to be dealt with head-on. Whoever was doing this to us needed to be found and stopped, not negotiated with. — James Patterson

If you don't smoke, I don't know why. — Wiz Khalifa

Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops. — Langhorne Slim

You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions. — Herbert V. Prochnow

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well. — Hector Hugh Munro

At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment. — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God. — Samuel Johnson