128 Quotes by James Richardson

It never came down to two roads at all,or if it did, I took the one less traveled byfor a driveway, or the entrance to a mall,or it slipped past like a station off the airwhile I bent down to fiddle with the dial.

Loving yourself is about as likely as tickling yourself.

Hope is a door left unlatched in a high windbanging and banging itself to pieces.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

I look over my old books, happiest when I find a line it seems I could not have written.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that's on their minds, even before it's on their minds? Sometimes I think I could just turn up my head like a Walkman so what's going on there could be heard by others. But there would still be a difference. For inside the head they are talking to people like them, and I am talking to someone like me: he is quiet and doesn't much like being talked at; he can't conceal how easily he gets bored.