Russell Hoban

“It is the unknown that we thirst for. The constant thunder of the sea and the cry of the gulls is the sound of the unknown.”

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”

“A page is a loaded weapon.”

“If you don't have a plan, you can end up anywhere.”

“What a man is is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.”

“The past is not a package one can lay away.”

“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”

“It's always the same with people. They don't want what they've got, they want what they haven't got.”

“Words are not things, but they are what we use to think about things.”

“Every day you don't write is a day you lose a little bit of the impulse to write.”

“We're all on the same doomed ship.”

“The whole of life is a journey toward death.”

“When the mind is trying to find its way, it has to be moving.”

“Never be a good boy.”

“The future is a thing of the past.”