Quote by Robert Welch

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

— Douglas Adams

“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have…

— Tom Perrotta

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic…

— Jodi Picoult

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

— Richard Yates

His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible,…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would seem a…

— Thomas Paine

“Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering…

— Isaac Asimov

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

— Chuck Klosterman

His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had…

— Joseph Conrad

One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories…

— John Green

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It…

— Francis Darwin