Michael Gallagher

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
― Horton Foote