Tony Taylor > Quotes

“He’d lived in the desert all his life, and he loved it. He was its child. It was his home.”
― Tony Taylor, Counters

“There was no fear of sandpaper earth, no sense of danger from a bare-skinned spill, for the boy was a child—a six-foot, one-inch growing child who knew nothing of accident, injury, dismemberment, death—who would study those lessons tomorrow, thank you, but not today. Today, it would be sufficient to be wild and free.”
― Tony Taylor, Counters

“When you're a kid, you don't get to do anything.
When you're a grown-up, you don't want to do anything.”
― Tony Taylor, The Darkest Side of Saturn: Odyssey of a Reluctant Prophet of Doom

“She hasn't a humble bone in her body, nor has she need for one.
–Said of a daughter.”
― Tony Taylor

“We are small and insignificant but our souls are large because we have set out on a journey to know the universe.”
― Tony Taylor

“A man's duty is to soar in the heavens.
A woman's duty is to bind him to earth.”
― Tony Taylor, The Darkest Side of Saturn: Odyssey of a Reluctant Prophet of Doom

“Representative Kenneth Hardgrave lay in bed in the presidential suite of the luxurious Pasadena Ritz-Carlton Hotel smoking a cigarette. He was glad Ronald Stevens had talked him out of attending the show. Sex was much more satisfying than listening to some fanatic talk about the end of the world. His wife rolled over to get some sleep. The bed she was in, however, was twenty-two hundred miles away in Washington, while the woman in Hardgrave's bed snuggled lazily up beside him. Visions of bracelets and sugarplums danced through her head.”
― Tony Taylor, The Darkest Side of Saturn: Odyssey of a Reluctant Prophet of Doom

“Phi cang Saigon Tansonnhut"

  "He puzzled at the meaning and smiled inwardly. The sign probably said, “Welcome and Affectionate Salutations to All Who Enter the Glorious Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Home of Seventh Air Force, Only Minutes from Beautiful Saigon.” Or maybe not; he couldn’t know. Maybe it read, “Welcome to the Dung Heap of Despair—Abandon Cheer, All Ye Who Enter.”
― Tony Taylor

“We are of the earth, we are of the human race, our souls are large because we have begun a journey to know the Universe.”
― Tony Taylor, The Darkest Side of Saturn: Odyssey of a Reluctant Prophet of Doom

“Today was the end of freedom. High school had fallen behind; college loomed ahead. Tomorrow he traded freedom and Arizona for Colorado and discipline.”
― Tony Taylor, Counters