James Welch

“The world is a brutal place, but also a place of beauty.”

“Some people are born to be dreamers. They are not so much destined to do things as to imagine them.”

“The past is not a dead thing, but a living presence.”

“To be a man is to be part of a story, and to be part of a story is to be a man.”

“My writing, I think, is a way of trying to understand the world and my own place in it.”

“Life is a circle. We walk in a circle, so must we think in a circle.”

“The quiet is the thing I can't stand. It's so... final.”

“It is a simple fact that most of the time we are not in our right minds.”

“Distance was not a factor to a man who measured his life in dreams.”

“I came to the realization that I was going to be a writer, and I had a story to tell.”