Tc Boyle Quotes

#1. But then, that's the beauty of writing stories - each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.
[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003]

T.C. Boyle

#2. If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.

George Pendle

#3. You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

Eli Broad

#4. October had tremendous possibility. The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.

Sarah Guillory

#5. The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.

Terence McKenna

#6. My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Kin Hubbard

#7. For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

Joe Mantegna

#8. Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. Sleeping here is harder here in space than on a bed because the sleep position here is the same position throughout the day. You don't ever get that sense of gratifying relaxation here that you do on Earth after a long day at work.

Scott Kelly

#10. I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle, one in Portland, and one in Salt Lake City. They started in 1925, and then they went out of business around 1958.

Terry Zwigoff

#11. Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#12. It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

Carl Rogers

#13. Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

Alison Mosshart