Quotes by : Mark Slouka

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

It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

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

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed....

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

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.

I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were....

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