Jerry Gregoire Quotes

#1. Many books open with an author's assurance of order. One slipped into their waters with a silent paddle ... But novels commenced with hesitation or chaos. Readers were never fully in balance. A door a lock a weir opened and they rushed through, one hand holding a gunnel, the other a hat.

Michael Ondaatje

#2. A smile and a sword - the way to conquer kingdoms.

Martina Boone

#3. When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.

Huey Newton

#4. The crowd is bobbing round him and he is part of it, the free people of the earth have taken him among them. He is one with all these grown-up happy children celebrating their independence of things that never held them.

John Le Carre

#5. Even in her mind the words had the forlorn gallantry of someone whistling in the dark.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#6. The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#7. Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Robertson Davies

#8. No, for God's sake, I'm not bloody suicidal. And I'm not proposing, either. Forget I said anything.

Michael Grant

#9. I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

Michelangelo

#10. how this shame and degradation can exist in you side by side with other, opposite, holy feelings? It would be better, a thousand times better and wiser to leap into the water and end it all!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.

Parul Sehgal

#12. He means the Word: the sentence that, when uttered, would destroy the mind of the listener.

Ted Chiang

#13. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.

Anthony Burgess