S.L. Wallace Quotes

It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child.

I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying.

Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.

Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.

Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.

There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.

My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.

The basis of all choice in manifestation is Loving Yourself. This is the start and the finish to all good things that you are looking for.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.

The public makes a hit.

E.T.' was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love.

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

I have an Internet radio show where people can call in for healing.

A really good horror film has a story.

Taking control of your own creation, you can ultimately affect your future.

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

Good farming, clear thinking, right living.

Nations endure only as long as their topsoil.

Opportunity comes to pass-not to pause.

All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off!

The pilot channel is doing what was expected. It is abating dust and giving us an inkling of what the area will look like when it is restored .

When things go wrong, I just think: It's part of the journey.

I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I've always had a fascination with my hometown.

In a strange way, becoming a grandfather is like starting your life over.

It's important for me to live up to my reputation.

I don't ever want to let people down, so a lot of my energy goes to making people laugh and letting them know how much I care for them.

Now that I've reached 50, it has become important for me to sleep and wake up at my own pace. Otherwise, I'm completely zapped.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.