Edward Bunker Quotes

#1. Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.

Douglas Adams

#2. But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.

Edward Bunker

#3. Your basic problem is emotional immaturity. You want life to be like in the movies, full of excitement. That's how a child's mind works, but the adults accept regularity, tedium, frustration.

Edward Bunker

#4. Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.

Nicole Scherzinger

#5. I need a kid like I need a bad heart. A pretty kid is a ticket to trouble ... and I'm too old to ask for that. Shit, I haven't even booked Tommy the Face in two years. I'm turning into a jack-off idiot.

Edward Bunker

#6. Decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.

Edward Bunker

#7. It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don't know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless.

Donald Barthelme

#8. During the interim, no matter how much agony the man may feel, he also experiences excitement, the excitement of learning how to cope with a closed society that reflects free society as a funhouse mirror reflects the human form: everything is there, but distorted.

Edward Bunker

#9. Three great problems of the century - the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light - are unsolved;

Victor Hugo

#10. Let us not pretend that we go into this war with clean hands. It is only while we cling to the consciousness that our hands are not clean that we retain the right to defend ourselves.

George Orwell

#11. Life was precious. Life was all that mattered. Yet it meant nothing if you weren't living as you wanted.

Edward Bunker

#12. The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

Elif Shafak

#13. It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

Roger Babson

#14. I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do

Edward Bunker

#15. Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

Dara Horn

#16. How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

John Muir

#17. In three months Ron read more than he had in his entire previous life. He felt his mind widen, his perceptions become more acute, for each book was a prism refracting the infinitely varied truths of experience. Some were telescopes; some microscopes.

Edward Bunker

#18. One of the best things in being a criminal is having no schedule.

Edward Bunker

#19. Hope is still ahead of you - but someday it will be behind you. That's really the point of children, to have someone to pin hope to.

Edward Bunker

#20. You want to go back, and so you hold on to the habits you learned while you were traveling, because it's better that admitting the journey's over.

Seanan McGuire

#21. I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it,

Elsa Peretti

#22. The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Fred Saberhagen