"People would rather be wrong than be different."

“At the top of this list has to be "get in that ass". It's the ultimate Leonism to get you through life.”

Source : Interview with Charlie Parrish, uk.askmen.com.

“I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.”

Source : Source: muse.jhu.edu

“The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation, the fair that once marked the harvest now takes place in late August, while tourist dollars are still in heavy circulation. Why celebrate the harvest when you harvest every week with a shopping cart?”

“Shadow turned. Her eyes were wet; she smiled at him wanley. "I'll be she loved you.”

“Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up”

“My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.”

Source : Interview with Paul Fischer, "Dark Horizons", December 2, 2003.

“Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.”

“I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.”

Source : Eugene B Sledge (2010). “With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic”, p.61, Random House