quotes about Schmucks

“I know I'm a better editor than I was when I began, twenty years ago. I'm less scared of the text, I'm less scared of the writer, and, crucially, I no longer believe that I have to leave my mark on every story.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

“Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.”

“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”

“Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.”

“For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.”

“I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.”

“Your small goals are clear and you understand the actions and know the path you need to take to reach these goals. In your mind, they're achievable and you know it's just a matter of time.”

“The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.”

“I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.”

“A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.”