Selections Showroom Coburn Quotes

#1. We fought.'
'A duel?'
'Nothing that formal. A simultaneous decision to murder one another is more like it.

Roger Zelazny

#2. There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin.

John Gimlette

#3. They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Christopher Morley

#4. I am tired of everyone keeping their secrets so well that they get other people killed. We are all involved in your game, and it seems we are not as easily repaired as teacups.

Erin Morgenstern

#5. Once you know magic is real, it's really hard to remember what it was like not to know.

Laini Taylor

#6. I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.

Mike Birbiglia

#7. Some people find it's easier to hate.

Billy Joel

#8. When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

Trent Reznor

#9. For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

Alan Turing

#11. I keep on fighting ... but I can't keep going on this way

Yukiru Sugisaki

#12. Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

Brad Grey

#13. There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

Carlos Fuentes

#14. To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

Franklin D. Roosevelt