#think

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked? ↗

— Richard Russo

#copies #doors #earlier #extant #genuine

I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them. ↗

— Richard Russo

#care #deal #either #far #for the people

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me. ↗

— Richard Russo

#comedy #comes #comic #harder #i

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. ↗

— Richard Russo

#class #i #i do #just #much

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. ↗

— Richard Russo

#books #even #except #exist #i

I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#afterwards #anybody #because #convinced #family

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived. ↗

— Herbert Samuel

#how #lived #man #story #thinks

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to. ↗

— Eric San

#american music #based #because #big #big fan

My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded. ↗

— Eric San

#brain #cell #communicates #completely #forms

I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special. ↗

— Ryne Sandberg

#been #chicago #cub #cubs #i