“No one outside the family has ever known the full story," he said. "You must swear you'll never reveal a word of what I'm about to tell you to anyone."
I said sure, you got it, Ace. And I meant it, too. But the thing people should know about me when they swear me to secrecy is that I don't have a good memory. The first thing I forget is that it's a secret. The second thing I forget is who told me this secret. The third and final thing I forget is the secret itself. So if you tell me something in the strictest secrecy, you're guaranteeing that everyone in the world will know this secret except me.”
― The Time Machine Did It
I said sure, you got it, Ace. And I meant it, too. But the thing people should know about me when they swear me to secrecy is that I don't have a good memory. The first thing I forget is that it's a secret. The second thing I forget is who told me this secret. The third and final thing I forget is the secret itself. So if you tell me something in the strictest secrecy, you're guaranteeing that everyone in the world will know this secret except me.”
― The Time Machine Did It
“The right wing runs on rage, which is the fuel of convenience when you run out of truth.”
― The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House
― The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House
“students, eh, you can love them or hate them, but you're not allowed to hit them with a shovel”
― Making Money
― Making Money
“Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things. Stories aren’t about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.”
― The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House
― The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House
“Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
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