20 Quotes by William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don’t get to choose.

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner’s luck.

Sometimes you only saw yourself clearly in the eyes of those you’ve left, and what you saw was a horror.

He rages because the people don’t deserve their country and proved it by electing a racist orange glob of hair coughed up by the Russian cat.

Class divisions as clear as those between Harrington and myself always bring out my best, or at least my most petty.