Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.
Richard FlanaganYou have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.
Richard FlanaganOne cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.
Richard FlanaganThe idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.
Richard Flanagan