Matadero Creek Quotes

#1. Tyranny begins with the laws of grammar.

Marty Rubin

#2. I can feel it ... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.

Isaac Marion

#3. I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

Edan Lepucki

#4. Life shifts, sometimes shakes like an earthquake.

Kate Angell

#5. My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.

Betty Parsons

#6. Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.

Zia Haider Rahman

#7. The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

James L. Brooks

#8. Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India. Providing universal access to information will allow such people to realize their full potential, providing benefits to the entire world.

Hal Varian

#9. The Constitution provided a nearly limitless theater of argument. The founding era was, in reality, one of the most partisan periods of American history.

David Sehat

#10. The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. She had broken, become something else. She didn't know what yet. Could you love someone in the process of changing? She did love Linh. As much as a ghost loved. The mind treacherous.

Tatjana Soli