David Liss Quotes

“Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.”

“The world is full of wonders that cannot be measured. That is why they are wonders.”

“he world has changed, you know. Either we change with it and prosper or we shake our fists at the sky. I prefer the first choice. And what about you, Weaver? What do you prefer?”

“Proximity, I have learned, is often as effective as violence.”

“We are all driven by our passions, and our task is to know when to submit to them and when to resist.”

“You will act not on what your eyes and ears show you, but on what your mind thinks probable.”

“You are but a hard turd in the ass of my journey.”

“Choices are in our power, but consequences are not.”

“In 1985 I'd never seen a mullet before, had no idea what a mullet was, what it was called, or why someone might choose to endure such a thing except for the simple pleasure that comes from having two haircuts on one head. All I knew was that it looked monumentally stupid.”

“It is one thing to accept that one is powerless to stop the suffering in the world, but quite another to benefit from what brings misery to others.”

“At what point, I wondered, does silence become complicity?”

“I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.”

“There will always be a storm. You may be rained on or cause the rain yourself. I much prefer the latter.”