Varady Illustrations Quotes

#1. The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Charles Olson

#2. If rewards are immoderate, there will be expenditure that does not result in gratitude; if punishments are immoderate, there will be slaughter that does not result in awe.

Sun Tzu

#3. To go about your work with pleasure, to greet others with a word of encouragement, to be happy in the present and confident in the future; this is to have achieved some measure of success in living.

Edwin Osgood Grover

#4. For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.

Halldor Laxness

#5. If something is crucial to the plot, then I'd better be sure I've got my facts straight. Readers of crime novels are smart and savvy, and they'll waste no time letting me know if there's a hole in my plot.

Mark Billingham

#6. We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nights
our silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

Charles Bukowski

#7. Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.

David Wilkerson