Bouchercon 2023 Quotes

#1. The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

Red Auerbach

#2. What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time?

Lysa TerKeurst

#3. In most shows, there's usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.

Jill Soloway

#4. But that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

Erich Maria Remarque

#5. Who wants to get cake? - Following a pop quiz

Graham Peterson

#6. You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

J. Michael Straczynski

#7. Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Tom Stoppard

#8. Survive today. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

Rick Riordan

#9. All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

John Hodgman

#10. If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

Jonathan Swift

#11. You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.

Catherine Keener

#12. I don't need proof, I have faith,

Simon Birch

#13. I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.

Lemon Andersen