“We all play by the same rules. But some people spend more time reading those rules and figuring out how to make them work in their behalf.”
― Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
― Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
― All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
― All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.”
― The Zombie Room
― The Zombie Room
“leaving me an orphan like those characters I had spoken of the night before, if one can truly be called an orphan at twenty-one years of age.”
― This House is Haunted
― This House is Haunted
“A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
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