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“Seemed like a good idea on paper.”
― Dr. Frankenstein

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
― Walt Whitman

“When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
― John F. Kennedy

“OOPS!”
― Rick Perry

“Hey, Ma, your bad boy done it!”
― Rocky Graziano, Somebody Up There Likes Me: The Story of My Life So Far

“Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.”
― James Jones

“Be uncomfortable; be sand, not oil, to the machinery of the world.”
― Gunter Eich

“When you come to a fork in the road take it”
― Yogi Berra

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. ”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I must give myself permission not to like myself. It's ok. Plenty of other people don't like me either. And I have much higher standards.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“99% of all problems can be solved by money -- and for the other 1% there's alcohol.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Be thankful for the little you've got, and a little is all you're gonna get.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“People ask what's up with this writing business? What do I hope to accomplish? I tell 'em I'm just a brick mason; words are my bricks and I'm building a skyscraper -- one brick at a time.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“I was eating a steak at a local restaurant last night, when a random woman said: "Y'know, you'd be much better off being a vegetarian." "Are you crazy?" I said, "The cow was a vegetarian and look what happened to it!”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“I wish all those who've found God, would tell the rest of us where he's been hiding.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“There are no sacred cows -- just ask Ronald McDonald.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“And so once again peace reigned in his kitchen cabinet. The voices he'd been hearing as he lie in bed stopped. His doctor took him off the Lithium. Tho every now and again he'd hear what seemed to be the sounds of love making emanating from the kitchen . . . and the muffled sobs of a can of refried beans. Probably just the Mexican couple in the apartment upstairs. (From "Kitchen Cabinet Confidential")”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Chester watched it shining clearly above the picnic grounds. Soon an astronaut would step down off the LEM of Apollo 11 and plant his foot on what had once been hallowed ground. Science would intrude on what for all known time had been the sole domain of poets and dreamers alone: the moon. After that, well -- one thing was for certain: no matter what they found up there, it would never again be as easy for a father to tell his young son that the mysterious ball of light that appeared in the heavens each night was really just a hunk of old cheese floating in the sky. Nothing would ever be that simple again.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, Horse Latitudes

“Literature today is like elevator music for a narcoleptic.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“I was planning on procrastinating today . . . but never got around to it.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Do you ever feel like we are the universe’s date to a pig party?
Love,
The Human Race”
― Christy Leigh Stewart

“I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision to understand that once it's pushed, it's over. Finito. They're not gonna have lunch with Jesus. Won't be deflowering 72 virgins on the great shag carpet of eternity, or reincarnated as a cow. I want someone making that decision who believes life on this Earth isn't just a dress rehearsal for something better -- but the only shot we get.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“One thing I love about politicians; they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Better a starving eagle, than a well-fed pigeon.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm unable to scratch; a dinner invitation from a cannibal; elevator music for a narcoleptic. Writing is the hope of lifting all boats by pissing in the ocean. Writing isn't something that makes me happy like a good cup of coffee. It's just something I do because not writing, as I've found, is so much worse.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
― Jim Thompson