‘Every walk can be expressed as a story narrated by the walker.’
– The Art of Wandering – The Writer As Walker – Merlin Coverley
‘Every walk can be expressed as a story narrated by the walker.’
– The Art of Wandering – The Writer As Walker – Merlin Coverley
‘ I had a sense even at that age, of how the majority can submit to the bullying of a few determined individuals, and how a single man can restore to others a sense of the dignity of individuals and the power of a community.’
‘The Rat Race’ means a race where, no matter how fast you run, you don’t get anywhere. I felt bad about the title because, I thought, it wasn’t a rat race at all, it was a People Race, and no sensible rats would ever do anything so foolish,’
‘The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.’
‘You can’t just come to a stop because bad things happen.’
‘Starting implies a beginning.’
‘Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.’
‘I have often pondered on the anomalies of ‘show business’, which is not really a business but a game played with all the petty deceits, subterfuges and bitcheries one would expect to find in a provincial amateur dramatics society.’
‘LA is a meat factory that grinds people into neat little packages. I don’t want to be a neat little package.’
from Instant Party : Musings, Memories and Minutiae by Alan Clayson