Michael Schmicker > Quotes

“She exuded a raw, animal magnetism that left boys like me tongue-tied, and made men ignore their wives and crowd up close.”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“As we Italians say, the husband is like the government at Rome, all pomp; the wife is like the mafia, all power.”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“You have to gnaw the bone that's thrown you.”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“Girls are funny. If they fall for you, they do what they want—their mothers be damned.”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“Women have been deceiving men since the Garden of Eden. They’ve had centuries of practice.”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“She only had a few coins to her name, but she had the Midas touch when it came to turning destitution into dreams.”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“No matter how beautiful women are, they’re always worried that they aren’t attractive enough. They need to be reassured. A few don’t, but even they appreciate the attention.”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“We sat on the terrace and talked as the sun slipped into the western sea and the stars filled the sky above us.”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“Era il giorno ch'al sol si scoloraro per la pietà del suo factore i rai… Antonio”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“quantum physics’ hidden afterlife hypothesis – our consciousness is not made of matter.”
― Michael Schmicker, What Comes Next? : An Investigative Reporter Uncovers Quantum Physics' Hidden Afterlife Hypothesis

“If reality is fundamentally not made of matter, then what is it made of?  Energy and consciousness.”
― Michael Schmicker, What Comes Next? : An Investigative Reporter Uncovers Quantum Physics' Hidden Afterlife Hypothesis

“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.” – Dr. Carl Jung”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“Because letting go of scientific materialism would be professionally risky, intellectually demanding, and emotionally disturbing to them. Until you have to, don’t.”
― Michael Schmicker, What Comes Next? : An Investigative Reporter Uncovers Quantum Physics' Hidden Afterlife Hypothesis

“She died early the next morning, her hand in mine, as the sun flooded through her window and the light in those luminous eyes of hers faded away forever.”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“He bought her a pretty music box with a picture of the castle in winter painted on the lid, and she slept on his shoulder on the train ride home.”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“Huxley blushed – he didn’t expect that response, though he should have. You don’t insult a Neapolitan to his face,”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“everyone”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“Under the rules of quantum physics, a thing can be in two different places (here and there), or two different states (alive and dead) at the same time;”
― Michael Schmicker, What Comes Next? : An Investigative Reporter Uncovers Quantum Physics' Hidden Afterlife Hypothesis

“the library all alone, reading”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli

“Writers are tough sons-of-bitches. It’s hard enough to write a book. Then you have to wade into this street fight we call the publishing industry and start pitching your project. The tweed jacket crowd is gone, replaced by Darwinian corporate mergers, staff churn, the e-book earthquake, anti-trust pricing scuffles, and book platforms multiplying like rabbits. You have to sort through too much personal information on too few agents, searching for a hook, parsing what they love, and what they want, and exactly how they want it presented. Your pitch letter has to be pitch perfect, a polished gem. You gotta sell more than a well-wrought paragraph; only Clancy and Cussler get a promo budget. You gotta show them you’ve got a social media game – tweet, facebook, link-in, chat, blog. You gotta help them sell your book.

So what.

I wouldn’t trade this trade for anything. Thanks, Gutenberg, for inventing this game I love.”
― Michael Schmicker

“He preached the love of God but burned people alive.”
― Michael Schmicker, The Witch of Napoli