‎"Nothing works out according to plan, but it always works out." - local motto in Chihuahua, Mexico, via Christopher McDougall

"Last year, I would wait for poetry to fall from the sky. As of late, I call it down. Or coax it." - Tina Nguyen

“After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that’s enough.” - Yasmina Reza

"I want the contingency of life, the unpredictability, the unknowability, the mysteriousness..." -David Shields

"We dream ourselves awake every minute of the day." -David Shields

"Attention equals life or is its only evidence." - F. O'Hara

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector." - Hemingway