"Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire."

-- Joy Kogawa

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“If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.”
“Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.”
“I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.”
“The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital.”
“Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.”
“You tell yourself that you're not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, "Well, I won't get that job. But maybe they'll have another job sometime, and they'll remember that I was good."”
“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
“When I go to sleep, someone wakes up to get their hustle on, that's why I get my 2 hours, their 2 hours and overseas 2 hours in. I'll make sure no one can catch me.”

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