Shabtai Shavit Quotes

#1. All griefes with bread are lesse.

George Herbert

#2. Mati took in my expression, and a moment later I was in his arms. His kisses washed over me like floodwater over parched earth. I clutched him helplessly, tears falling down my face and mingling with his as he whispered my name.

Kathy MacMillan

#3. We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

John Lennon

#4. Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

Vance Havner

#5. Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Ray Bradbury

#6. What you see depends on where you stand.

D.L. Morrese

#7. In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Edmund White