Leyse Quotes

#1. Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me of James Purdy's notorious eccentricity. There's plenty of middlebrow stuff if you want it. Self-Murder isn't that.

Kris Saknussemm

#2. [The damage in New York was] greater than expected.

Osama Bin Laden

#3. When you are everywhere, you are nowhere
When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

Rumi

#4. The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.

Henry Cloud

#5. The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

Merlin Stone

#6. I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

Erykah Badu

#7. The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're decoding

Maureen Corrigan

#8. I really do not aim at any originality.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#9. You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

A.E. Van Vogt

#10. True wisdom is the skill and practice of death.

C.S. Lewis

#11. It's the referee's job. It's not for me to have to say I should ease up.

Chris Eubank Jr.

#12. It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon