Koertge Quotes

#1. We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world aboutthe American Black man.

John Oliver Killens

#2. You've got scars, you're beat up, you're a different person, but you're through it.

Ron Koertge

#3. Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something ... I don't know!

Cara Delevingne

#4. Dark night of the soul," said Jesus, "Happens to everybody sooner or later.

Ron Koertge

#5. No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben

Ron Koertge

#6. That's why babies cry so much. All of a sudden having a body is a lot to deal with.

Ron Koertge

#7. Kids don't think about their folks nearly as much as everybody imagines. Parents are just there, like background music at the mall.

Ron Koertge

#8. The only thing that lives on is the part that makes everyone they left behind who they are.

C. Robert Cargill

#9. Walker grinned.
'Ah,' said Jesus. 'There it is. Signs of your holiness.'
'I just smiled. You made a dumb joke, and I smiled.'
'And that isn't holy?

Ron Koertge

#10. Little kids I don't mind. Every kid wants a pony. It's grown-ups that get my robe in a knot. Stop with the begging, okay? Adore me for a change. Or give thanks. I like gratitude. Or ask for guidance. But oh, no. It's always the pony.

Ron Koertge

#11. The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

Jacques Ellul

#12. Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

Janet Jackson

#13. All over town kids lay awake & wondered: Am I smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, tall enough? If our fears were smoke, the town would be covered night & day by an inky pall.

Ron Koertge

#14. I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss ... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page.

Ron Koertge

#15. Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I'm not giving advice. I don't instruct. At my best, I delight. That's my job.

Ron Koertge

#16. If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to the library, they'd have to send out for more books.

Ron Koertge

#17. The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen ... one of them ... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world.

Ron Koertge

#18. The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

John Guare

#19. I always sit through the credits. I am always the last one out of any theater. I even make a point of being last. I stay in my seat until everyone else has shuffled past. Then I turn my back, too, on the comforting dark.

Ron Koertge

#20. You're a miracle, Walker. Your fingers are. Your toes are. Your crushing sadness and guilt are.

Ron Koertge

#21. Since I don't know where I'm going, I guess I'm in no real hurry to get there.

Ron Koertge

#22. Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

Phyllis McGinley

#23. Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night ... Without the satisfaction.

Lynn Johnston