56 Quotes by Frank Delaney

Stories are where you go to look for the truth of your own life.

My mother used to say, “Fun is fun till someone loses an eye.

What are you like inside? Don’t you have feelings where you love everyone, and at the same time you hate everyone? Or – don’t you have times when everything goes the way you want, but nothing feels good or right? That’s what I mean,” he’d say, “about my black horse and my white horse.

But can you make someone feel the world all around loves them? Can you make them feel the rain is for cooling them, the wind is for drying them, the sun is for warming them?

Writers have opinions – that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

A thing doesn’t have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious.

The point about words is – the better you use them, the stronger is the thought that wears them.

Guns discommode me. Their facility alarms me. Point and kill. Ruin someone’s life. Remove at a finger pull deeply loved people, as important in their spheres as the sun in the sky. The very weight of a gun disturbs me-an insolent object, insisting on its own importance.

Can you lead to dignity a man abused by his employer? Can you give hope for a new life to a woman whose infant has died? Can you guide an oppressed people to freedom and power?