“I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged like the prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark word, and the only word I had was ‘wow’. -On The Road
Category Archives: Quotes
Robert Frost Quote
“I suppose I’m just a bit lazy, so I’ve had a lazy, scrape-along life, and enjoyed it. I fight everything academic. The time we waste in trying to learn academically – the talent we starve with academic teaching!” -Robert Frost
Henry Miller (from Tropic of Cancer)
“I was permitted to hear an incredible music…I heard the gestation of the new world…the sound of stars grinding and chafing, of fountains clotted with blazing gems….Music is planetary fire, an irreducible which is all sufficient; it is the slate-writing of the gods.” -Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“The amuse-bouche is the best way for a great chef to express his big ideas in small bites.” -Jean-Georges Vongerichten
“I’ve always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words together.” -Robert Harris
“It often took me a full morning to write a paragraph.” –Ernest Hemingway
C.M. Rivers 