Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines. — James Richardson Fantasy Copy Share Image
Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on? — James Richardson Break Copy Share Image
Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one. — James Richardson Faith Copy Share Image
Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to… — James Richardson Expected Copy Share Image
I'm a kid checking mail, a kid on his cell with his questions: are we in love, Life, are we exclusive, are… — James Richardson Cells Copy Share Image
The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of. — James Richardson Best way Copy Share Image
I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window. — James Richardson Asks Copy Share Image
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system. — James Richardson Attention Copy Share Image
How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees. — James Richardson Funny Copy Share Image
If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else. — James Richardson Currency Copy Share Image
“Here in the last minutes, the very end of the world, someone's tightening a screw thinner than an eyelash, someone with slim… — James Richardson Apocalypse Copy Share Image
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell… — James Richardson Arithmetic Copy Share Image
“To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that's on their minds, even… — James Richardson Psychology Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Autism Copy Share Image
Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks. — James Richardson Thinking Copy Share Image
I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does. — James Richardson Brown Copy Share Image
When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing. — James Richardson Hearing Copy Share Image
You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't. — James Richardson Kind Copy Share Image
Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear. — James Richardson Clarity Copy Share Image
“Music is the highest art, no question. But literature is a friendlier one. It depends on us more, bores us more quickly,… — James Richardson Art Copy Share Image
They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence ... to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these… — James Richardson Back and forth Copy Share Image
The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it… — James Richardson Life Copy Share Image
“On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays 1. A beginning ends what an end begins. 2. The despair of the blank page: it… — James Richardson Best time Copy Share Image
