"The first slap-jack given me for dinner was a cake of flour, partially fried in a pan of fat bacon. I nibbled about the brown edges and threw it, unbaked, against a barn door, where it stuck for days."

“Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives.”

“I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“You are not an observer, you are a participant.”

“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Glen Hirshberg, Author of MOTHERLESS CHILD". Interview with Kristin Centorcelli, www.sfsignal.com. June 2, 2014.

“Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.”

Source : Kate Jacobs (2008). “Comfort Food”, p.123, Penguin

“Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.”

“Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.”

“Larger game teams are often a bit more experienced at working with writers, which is often a huge relief. However, it also means that there are more people wanting to wander around the narrative kitchen telling you how you should be making your story pies.”