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“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...”
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“Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.”
Source : John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics
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“Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do.”
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“Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book whats really at stake, but ultimately its not about them - its always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.”
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“Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.”
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“Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.”
Source : "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.
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“You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.”