Bryan Smith

“Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.”
― Carson McCullers

“If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

“And like: “Why should one want to wake up dead anyway?” If the glorious birth-to-death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have . . . if our grand and exhilarating Fight of Life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway, compared to the eons of rounds before and after—then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?”
― Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion