Quotes by : Mark Slouka

Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and....

Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks....

I distrust the perpetually busy, always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like....

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky.....

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

...like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though....

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from....

Such is the privilege of survival: to be allowed to fashion the means that fit our ends, to cobble together....

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to....