Dinner With Trimalchio Quotes

#1. I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

Nelson Rodrigues

#2. My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

Katherine Dunham

#3. She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.

Neil Gaiman

#4. Then, when Amelia was married, she found that the giving and receiving of forgiveness was a little like exercise. You didn't enjoy having to do it, but once you did, it got easier - and you learned to need it. Maybe that was what the Bible meant by being "exercised in the

Adina Senft

#5. It's hard to know what [literature] will end up being timeless and what will be something that doesn't translate into the future, especially with the way we're evolving since our culture is changing so fast.

Rick Riordan

#6. All we can do about bullies is wish them happiness & celebrate our own.

Ariana Grande

#7. I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it's a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.

Jean Pigozzi

#8. If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

George Stillman Hillard

#9. I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.

Holly Hunter

#10. In other words Americans, and especially Americans in the South and West, never fully signed on to a social contract that would vest the government with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.

Steven Pinker

#11. There is no method but to be very intelligent.

T. S. Eliot

#12. Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!

Christopher Paul Curtis

#13. It's so hard to fight against someone who is stuck in what they believe whether you agree with it or not.

Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

#14. Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Joyce Carol Oates

#15. At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

Phil Klay