"People have been oversold, over-branded, overhyped, over-promised. And they basically trust a small local operator more than they trust the big corporate entity."

“The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.”

“Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1970). “The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology”, p.174, Univ of California Press

“Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.”

“Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.15, Vintage

“You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.”

“Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.”

“Justice is the well water of the city of/ Novgorod, black and sweet”

“America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies.”