Quote by Jesse Ball Download Open image ““--Let us make a pact, she said. To madness at every juncture!”” — Jesse Ball ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded.” — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
“It was madness. And, as Finan had said, sometimes madness works.” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Without a doubt. But imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.” — Morgan Rhodes Copy Share Image
“-Lara is a weasel. I've always hated her. The only happy week I had as a child was when she fell from the roof… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“Our knowledge about ourselves is our least reliable knowledge. Yet, so thoroughly do we ordinarily champion our own cause that it is acknowledged effective… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you? — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair. -Piet Soron, 1847” — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine? That you can say something, offhand, and it can matter, it can really matter to someone else? Can you imagine what… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“One cultivates one's life, one's friends, one's means, one's hopes. One goes from place to place, from triumph to triumph, in search of ambition… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
