Tom Coady

“myself was increasingly early to bed and early to rise, though I can’t say the effects were as the adage promised.”
― Lawrence Block, The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder

“Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair." So sang a little clod of clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: "Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite.”
― William Blake, The Clod and the Pebble

“That’s not fair! That’s a cry that rings out over the years on every school playground, because if there’s one thing every child seems to be born knowing, it’s that life is supposed to be fair. And, if there’s one lesson he learns sooner or later, it’s that it’s not.”
― Lawrence Block, The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder

“They are properly described as works of fiction, with the understanding that fiction does not imply lack of truth so much as a willingness to refashion factuality in the service of drama, and perhaps in search of a higher truth.”
― Lawrence Block, The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder