Quotes from Geoff Nicholson

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

Your own exploration therefore has to be personalized; you're doing it for yourself, increasing your own store of particular knowledge, walking your own eccentric version of the city.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

I held her feet in my hands.

Again, I did what I could. I didn't doubt, and didn't deny, that there were people who could have done a better job than me, people with more skill and experience, but I played the hand I was given, dealt with the problem, and the person, in front of me, and at least I felt reasonably sure I was doing no harm.

You have demons? Yes. That answer didn't surprise me, although how these demons connected with the movie was anybody's guess. Volkswagen demons, he said. You have Volkswagen demons? Yes. There. I said it. Happy now?

But perhaps the real reason we keep writing is the hope naïve perhaps that we'll make a better job of it next time. Unless you're a genius or a fool you realize that everything you write however "successful " is always a sort of failure. And so you try again.

The best walk is where you get lost then return. this reminds me of all the random hikes i take that make my soul happy and days when i was little that mom would take us out for sunday drives with the purpose of getting lost just because the adventure was fun (i still enjoy this...) love my mom. thanks, linda :)

The pace of words is the pace of walking, and the pace of walking is also the pace of thought.