James Alexander Thom Quotes

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

Too often we seek justice for just us.

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor, ” or, as Napoleon said, “a set of lies generally agreed upon