5 Quotes by John Horne Burns

She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis.

He knew instinctively the cardinal function of a teacher – which is a stout lever to raw mass.

To be a good writer, one must be homosexual.

It takes time and tiredness and tension to hate a city.

The war had made him into a lone wolf, an introverted arrow that shot silent and solitary to his target for the moment. He’d become an opportunist of sensation and aesthetic.