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My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.


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C. Z. GUEST The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
C. Z. GUEST What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they ha...
C. Z. GUEST All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
C. Z. GUEST I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.
C. Z. GUEST If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have ta...
P. Z. PEARCE Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI When the great white silence comes and fills the boughs of the trees with a thickening, glistening b...
J. Z. KNIGHT Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder ...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest...
MARK Z. JACOBSON Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar...
MARK Z. JACOBSON At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
C. Z. GUEST Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI By now you've probably noticed that except when safely contained by quotes, Zampanò always steers c...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI The ruminations are mine,

let

the world

be yours.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the fi...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of h...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI ...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to any...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI What miracle is this? This giant tree.
It stands ten thousand feet high
But doesn't reach ...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote,...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Why did god create a dual universe?
So he might say
‘Be not like me. I am alone.'
A...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I am not a fool. I am wise. I will run from my fear, I will outdistance my fear, then I will hide fr...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI