97 Quotes by Johnny Rich

So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?

For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.

I’m a bit-part actor in my own life

I don’t see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with great human tragedies played out before your eyes without ever taking notice. Or you could see a universe in the smallest thing. The way a person takes their coffee, for example, might say something profound and important about that person, about all humanity, about existence itself.

The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.