If I look closely, I bet I could see my own past, lying on…

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

— Jonah Lehrer

“His job already had him lying and manipulating me. My past had me lying and manipulating him. Both of us thought we were right.”

— Lisa Gardner

“I run with the hunted.”

— Charles Bukowski

“After his initial homecoming week, after he'd been taken to a bunch of sights by his cousins, after he'd gotten somewhat used to the…

— Junot Díaz

“When the people are not enlightened enough to exercise intelligent control, you take it from them, not to command their lives, but to create…

— R.J. Lawrence

“Maia did not want to wake up. Sleep lay on her like a dead bear and she had no strength to struggle out from…

— Kim McDougall

“Having the world as you wish--that is not for the young," he added, "They want too much.”

— Katherine Arden

“When they had arranged their blankets the boy lowered the lamp and stepped into the yard and pulled the door shut behind, leaving them…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Genius writers write simple, Garbage writers write fancy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

On the road to your target, move cleverly and silently; when you reached your target, be humble and silent!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“David (David Foster Wallace) had a caffeine social gift: Her was charmingly, vividly, overwhelmingly awake - he acted on other people like a slug…

— David Lipsky

“If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and love, with pure uninterested concern, just because…

— David Lipsky

“A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.”

— Idowu Koyenikan

“All mothers breed dead children.”

— Mie Hansson

When you look at the sky, you must know that you look at the cosmic factory which enabled you to exist as a live…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan