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“Well, I quite like animals, but theyre unpredictable. I mean, look at old whats-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. Theyre quite unpredictable.”
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“I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.”
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“You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.”
Source : Stephen Manes (1998). “Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!”, Yearling
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“If you feel like you've ‘made it,’ and you're completely satisfied, you have bigger problems.”
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“To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.”
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“Here I am, just wandering down a deserted street in the middle of the night. I hope I don't run into any trouble. Goodness, that would just ruin my whole evening." I strolled and hummed, trying to project Innocent Victim.”
Source : MaryJanice Davidson (2010). “Undead And Unwed: Number 1 in series”, p.183, Hachette UK
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“The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.”
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“What always was must always be.”
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“Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.”
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“I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.”