Zagnuts Quotes

#1. But that's what nonfiction is, people. Shitty feelings and encounters with death.

Mark Leyner

#2. In my case, if I start out by thinking about the plot, things don't go well. Small points, such as my impression of what is likely to occur, do come to mind, but I let the rest of the story take its own course. I don't want to spend as long as two years writing a story whose plot I already know.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Acharya, is war the only solution to political differences?' 'Wise pupil, politics is war without bloodshed and war is simply politics with bloodshed.

Ashwin Sanghi

#4. When a friend askes, there is no to morrow.
[When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.]

George Herbert

#5. A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car

Enrique Penalosa

#6. Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done.

William Tyndale

#7. What I could not understand was why the Didact had decided to save one of those very weapons whose creation he had so decisively opposed.

Greg Bear

#8. One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

John R. Allen

#9. If you want to be a well-paid copywriter, please your client. If you want to be an award-winning copywriter, please yourself. If you want to be a great copywriter, please your reader.

Steve Hayden

#10. Frustration is the mother of risk.

Gail Sheehy

#11. Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#12. I don't know where my songs come from ... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

Judy Collins