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....

We're angry about this, upset about that, but who has the time to do anything anymore? There are those....

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

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

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

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....

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