quotes of day Thursday, August 27, 2026

“Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.”

“The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.”

“Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.”

“Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix & a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get.”

“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”

“You're never beaten until you admit it”

“White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.”

“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”

“People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.”

“Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.”

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

“I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.”

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”