40 Quotes by Jonathan Lee

A revelation is like a sneeze. Sounds unlikely, but it is. It can be lost, can simply vanish, if one does not look straight into the light and ask the inside to come out.

How do we picture the past? Does it become clearer as it drifts into the distance? Can it be seen from more angles, a better vantage, with finer instruments for optics, and more supporting documentation to draw from? Or has its essence already vanished, leaving space for lies to multiply and thrive, spreading across paperwork that is good for nothing except, perhaps, a nervous acting captain's next snack?

An alleyway is a disappointed road, waiting for someone to widen it.

Andrew [Haswell Green]...thought of his impending travel on the brig. Of Samuel Tilden. Of why the friendship had vanished, the errors he must have made, too many signs of affection, or of desperation, neediness, the most appalling of all impressions to make on a fellow man. His only available course now was to put distance between his failures and his future, tighten the stranglehold on his feelings, and harden his heart protectively against the pain of further great mistakes.

...life amounts, above all else, to the recruiting of witnesses.

When we first started, we went through multiple ideas. We thought we had a vision of what we wanted to do.

Card debts peaked in the fourth and first quarters but now the problem has been kept under control.

We were happy we could build something for Brian that would allow him to pursue something he wouldn't have been able to do otherwise.

What you thought would work and what will work are often different.