Quotes About Stephen

Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.

All of this was well meaning bullshit. But bullshit is still bullshit and will never be mistaken for McDonald's secret sauce.

You fucking drunken waste god wiped snot out of his nose and that was you

Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

The things of the world fell by the wayside, you lost your speed and your eyesight and your fucking Electric Boogaloo, but literature was eternal

All I have is intuition and a little hope." "Don't be such a pessimist. You've also got two tires, two garbage bags, and a hollow spindle.

Probably on one of those NPR shows where everyone sounds smart and full of Prozac

Is Stephen King the Crimson King of this world?

That was it. In Annie's view all the people in the world were divided into three groups: brats, poor poor things... and Annie.

I read more than I had in years-novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq mess (the short answer appeared to have W for a middle initial and a dick for a Vice President).

Behind mundane disagreement he saw not legitimate opinion but malevolent forces.

Land redistribution, Jughashvili argued, would facilitate a worker-peasant alliance

The word itself, not found in the Bible, commemorates Hel, the fierce Norse goddess who reigned over the netherworld.

Having written extensively about the practice of mindfulness in A Gradual Awakening I suggest that you refine your practice with this book as well as Jack Kornfield's excellent A Path with Heart. We

she wept and revived its meaning in the teachings of her way.

so profound an insight into God that for a century and a half he was branded a dangerous atheist...

The Mahaparinirvana Sutra says, "All things are impermanent. This is the law of appearing and disappearing. When appearing and disappearing disappear, then this stillness is bliss.

The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values & priorities

Proactive people aren't pushy. They're smart, they're value driven, they read reality, and they know what's needed. Look at Gandhi.

Remember, frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

recognize we've been scripted in ways that are not in harmony with our deep inner conscience

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things… I am tempted to think… there are no little things. BRUCE BARTON

We exhibit the highest form of divine influence when we exemplify divine attitudes and attributes in the worst kind of situations and predicaments.