Quotes by : Mark Slouka

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....

The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we....

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.....

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

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

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

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.