Foreword Quote by Walker Percy

“To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible…

— Richard Russo

“. . . there was the actual doing it, quickly followed by the grim realization of what it meant to do it, followed by…

— Cheryl Strayed

“I wanted to quit because I was suffering. That is not a good enough reason.”

— Ted Corbitt

“I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“And if it wasn’t as good as before, what was the point of doing it? There wasn’t a point, as far as I was…

— Ozzy Osbourne

“I wasn't prepared for the intensity of it.It was like going from blissful emptiness to experiencing a roller coaster of sensations all at once.”

— Alexandra Adornetto

“It was a terrible refreshment, his plain way, the simple words, the absence of strategy. It made you realize how much of your life…

— Glen Duncan

“What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like, and to…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It was all bad, very bad. And the worst of it was not that they had ceased waiting, but that they had ceased to…

— Georgi Vladimov

“Life's pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had - and knowing that things could always be…

— Meg Rosoff

“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the…

— Marcel Proust

“It was so good going down, but the aftertaste made you damn near hate it.”

— Erika Robuck