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1 " We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living. "
― Stephen King , Duma Key
2 " I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living. "
3 " You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think. "
4 " Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark. "
5 " Life is more than love and pleasure,I came to dig for treasure.If you want to play, you gotta pay,You know it's always been that wayWe all came digging for treasure. "
6 " In the end, we wear out our worries. "
7 " That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain. "
8 " Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday. "
9 " A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you. "
10 " If you want to play, you gotta pay. "
11 " God always punishes us for what we can't imagine. "
12 " Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. "
13 " If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't. "
14 " Art should be a place of hope. "
15 " because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself. "
16 " Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery. "
17 " Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says. "
18 " I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various voices of our own imaginations.And of our memories, of course. They have voices, too. Ask anyone who has ever lost a limb or a child or a long-cherished dream. Ask anyone who blames himself for a bad decision, usually made in a raw instant (an instant that is most commonly red). Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark. "
19 " The truth is in the details. "
20 " In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says. "
