Barry Hughart Quotes
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.
I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.
Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.
The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.
To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.
Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, " said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....
