Daniel > Daniel's Quotes

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“Multiple personalities. Don't freak out but I'm pretty sure I have them. Not a clinical thing, not a disease. But a distraction to be sure. There are maybe six or seven pretty concrete versions of myself knocking around in here and I mean it gets fucking crowded when everybody is drunk or talking at once.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Phineas Poe: Kiss Me, Judas / Penny Dreadful / Hell's Half Acre

“Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?”
― Elvis Costello

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Eroticize intelligence.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo