18 Quotes by Dean Bakopoulos

I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.

Midlife is when you have to accept what you’ve created, knowing that the life you have is is the only one you’ll live. And that can be terrifying, until you accept it, and then you are free of terror.

Like an eye, the moon follows us wherever we go.

We’re all terrible people. Eventually, we all become terrible, maybe around the middle of our lives, and then, if we’re lucky, we have time to find a way to be good again.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one. – Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go.

This is what e-mail is: either a cowardly way for people to ask favors of you that they would never ask in person, or a way for people to pretend they are having a friendship with you when they really are not.

They could stay in Iowa. Lots of people do that. Millions of them, like four million of them, stay in Iowa, year after year.

Then it’s just day by day. And most days are beautiful, Don. It’s regretting yesterday or overthinking tomorrow, that’s when ugliness comes in, right?

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.