S.A. David Quotes

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now.

I appreciate the opportunity to continue to serve the people of our state.

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.

Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.

Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.

Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.

One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

The weak are meat the strong do eat.

Men invented money Women invented mutual aid

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

Who was blowing on the nape of my neck?

If your words're true, they're armed.

Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat.

I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

I think we think in terms of stories.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

History admits no rules; only outcomes.