Kevin Schuster > Kevin's Quotes

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“We're all in this game together.”
― William Styron

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”
― Salvador Dalí

“Love is the jelly to sunshine’s peanut butter. And if I tell you that I’m in sandwich with you, I’m not just saying it to get in your Ziploc bag.”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“The most important thing is love,” said Leigh-Cheri. “I know that now. There’s no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker

“... it made me realize how crazy random it was not just that I was me (the billion sperm to one egg; the insane odds against all of my ancestors ever meeting each other), but also how, with the millions of electrical pulses in the brain that were needed to fire every microsecond, it was incredibly random that I continued to be me.”
― David Stuart MacLean, The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

“We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

from “Araby”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters...”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Language is a virus from outer space”
― William S. Burroughs

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Everybody's serious but me.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light...”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”
― Molière

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman