30 Quotes by William Kennedy

You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.

Anger makes people stupid.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don’t overdo it.

There’s only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move.

But fear is a cheap emotion, however full of wisdom. And, emotionally speaking, I’ve always thought of myself as a man of expensive taste.

Do something new and you are new. How boring it is not to fire machine guns.

You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you’re saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.

But after awhile you stand up, wipe the frost out of your ear, go someplace to get warm, bum a nickel for coffee, and then start walkin’ toward somewheres else that ain’t near no bridge.