Ryk Stanton

“I’ve written all these stories without any pornography, without any obscenity. I grew up among sailors and miners and lumberjacks and the roughest kind men in the world, but I never found it necessary to use all that in the stories. I can make them real without that. I think much of that kind of writing is a coverup for lack of real skill.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“NAME: Matthew Buchinger ACT: “The One-Man Variety Show” STORY: This 17th-century German entertainer had a dazzling array of talents. He played 10 instruments (some of which he’d invented himself), sang, danced, read minds, was a trick-shot artist and marksman, bowled, did magic tricks, drew portraits and landscapes, and did calligraphy. Even more impressive: Buchinger had no arms or legs. He had finlike appendages instead of hands, and “stood” only 28 inches tall.”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's New & Improved Funniest Ever