Russell Hoban Quotes

Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. Too-lateness is potentially every moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it's no longer too...

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

It isn't at all suprising that horses figure in so many diffrent ways in myth and story-there is such power in them beyond the phsyical. The prehistoric life in them seems whole and intact. Any horse...

If the way is diffrent the end is diffrent. Becaws the end aint nothing only part of the way its jus that part of the way where you come to a stop. The end cud be any part of the way its in every step...

Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.

Seeds blow in the wind and what is earf but a deadness with life growing out of it?

I said, That souns like the end of the song. What about the beginning?He said, Thats jus it you see thats why he wer too late he never come in to it at the beginning.I said, You never sung no beginnin...

Here below the surface one studies the depths of TO BE, as manifest in AM, IS, and ARE. And if you don't hold up your end of the conversation I may very well snap you in two.

I said, 'Then whered the other story come from? . . .'He said, 'It come in to my mynd.'I said, 'You mean you made it up.'He said, 'Wel no I dint make it up you cant make up nothing in your head no mor...

I've seen a film in which Dr Lorenz pointed out the difference between two colonies of cattle egrets, one free and one caged. The free ones, who had to provide for themselves, were monogamous and ener...

Every body knows Aunty. Stoan boans and iron tits and teef be twean her legs plus she has a iron willy for the ladys it gets red hot. When your time comes you have to do the juicy with her like it or...

How do the turtles find Ascension Island? There are sharks in the water too. Some of the turtles get eaten by sharks. Do the turtles know about sharks? How do they not think about the sharks when they...

A frightening thought had been growing in me. I'd always assumed that I was the central character in my own story but now it occurred to me that I might in fact be only a minor character in someone el...

Love me or I will kick you very hard.

All roads, whether long or short, are hard, said Frog. Come, you have begun your journey, and all else necessarily follows from that act. Be of good cheer. The sun is bright. The sky is blue. The worl...

What do you do when you're wound up?' she asked. 'Do you play that drum?'. 'No,' said the child. 'We used to dance.' 'But now we walk,' said the father. 'And behind us an enemy walks faster.' 'That's...

He grew morose, and felt himself half overcome by funk

Trubba not.

Seed of the littleSeed of the wyldSeed of the berning isHart of the chyld . . .Out goes the candlOut goes the liteOut goes my storyAnd so Good Nite

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more.