T.A. Barron Quotes

My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts.

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

Market leaders continually chart the changing waters.

Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.

And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.

A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.

The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?

It's much more fun to be the exception, not the rule

At the end of the day girls want jeans that will make them feel confident and sexy, and high-waisted jeans tend to do that.

Because I could see that all these kids were weird and even they didn't accept me, I knew I was the strangest one of all.

There's no way up but down.

Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.

I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.

He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.

Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.

My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While someone is in darkness another is in daylight.While person dies another is born.

This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso.

Acuerdate de lo que te digo, mi niño. No tengas miedo. Todo lo que te ha pasado te ayudará. Vas a salir adelante.

All of us, all living things, have the potential to change.

The heart can see things invisible to the eye.

The strongest bonds are of the heart.

Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".

It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.

The best way to protect something is to set it free.

At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.

Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.

I am abroad in the night with my servants. We come to smoke the northern lights, to rape the Wendigo, to melt igloos with streams of hot, bloody piss. To see and see.”“Oh. You’re a bit east.

The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time

There’s real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either.

The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.

Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

Always remember that with privilege comes responsibility. You must go to Casa Azul and see the place you came from. Only then will you be able to understand how far you've come.

Stories require faith, not facts.

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.

Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?

Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.