Craig Lancaster Quotes

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

— Craig Lancaster

“That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.”

— Craig Lancaster

“The complaint lies with me, not with you. I never could find a way to make you proud of me, and at some point, I think I stopped trying. When you were here, I blamed you for that. I think now, the failure is mine ... It occurs to me that death is a funny thing - not funny in a laughter sort of way, but in a twisty sort of way. It's the people who are left behind who have to grapple with the regret. The one who is gone is just gone. Wherever you are ... I hope you have regret about what happened yesterday.”

— Craig Lancaster

“I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.”

— Craig Lancaster

I tried eHarmony, because I liked the white hair and glasses of that guy on the commercials, and his manner was gentle, but eHarmony told me that the system and it's twenty nine levels of compatibility couldn't find anyone for me.
That hurt my feelings.

— Craig Lancaster

“I prefer facts, but sometimes sense is all you have to go on.”

— Craig Lancaster

“As I was saying, you have made the decision to let people into your life. Part of that involves being disappointed by them sometimes. Part of that involves being thrilled by them sometimes. It's up to you to decide whether the risk is worth the reward.”

— Craig Lancaster

“I hope you do exist. Even though hope is as intangible as belief, I am not hostile to it.”

— Craig Lancaster

“Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.”

— Craig Lancaster

“I don't feel sorry for myself. I'm not owed any of that. The opportunities were there, and I did not take them. I find it difficult to live with this sometimes.”

— Craig Lancaster

“I think a high grammar standard may be a losing fight on the Internet.”

— Craig Lancaster

“Jack Bauer is fooling his audience, but he's not fooling me.”

— Craig Lancaster

I'm adrift. That's the feeling I've had since setting out today-and, really, for much of this shitburger of a year-and I've finally found the word to describe that feeling.

— Craig Lancaster

“Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.”

— Craig Lancaster

When we say nasty things about other people, we're really criticizing something in them that we don't like in ourselves.

— Craig Lancaster

“We never have that kind of fun now. Thinking of that made me sad. I hope we can have fun again sometime. I found out that I still know how. Maybe you still know how too.”

— Craig Lancaster

“Dinner is leftover spaghetti, with meat sauce, warmed up in the microwave. I eat spaghetti nine times a week, every week, and it is my favorite food. And yet, tonight, I wonder if I'm in a rut.”

— Craig Lancaster

“There's a saying about ranch women. When they're 30, they look 50. When they're 80, they look 50.”

— Craig Lancaster

“For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed.”

— Craig Lancaster

“Hope is as intangible as belief,”

— Craig Lancaster

“Active, pulsing love took a secondary position to expedient need and the narcoleptic inertia of the day-to-day.”

— Craig Lancaster

“I'm going home, but there's nothing for me there. I am adrift. I hate that word.”

— Craig Lancaster

Hugo and I sat together in the chapel and didn't say a word to each other. We'd already said them all, in better times and in better places.

— Craig Lancaster

“For a long while, Norby had harbored a theory that places acted like dry-cell batteries, storing remnants of the lives of everyone who had ever passed through them.”

— Craig Lancaster

“I feel bad for Donna Middleton. But I do not feel sorry for her. This is a fine distinction, I think, but it feels right to me. I do not think Donna Middleton would appreciate my feeling sorry for her.”

— Craig Lancaster

“I prefer rock music-my favorites are R.E.M. and Matthew Sweet-but I think that if Dr. Buckley played Matthew Sweet, some of her patients would not like it. Matthew Sweet has a song called "Sick of Myself," and I am pretty sure that is exactly the wrong song name for a therapist's waiting room.”

— Craig Lancaster

“Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that?”

— Craig Lancaster

Did you know that there are NFL team colors available in paint? I am intrigued by this. I like the Dallas Cowboys, but I don't think that I would want their colors on the garage.

— Craig Lancaster

“The one thing Hugo did better than almost anyone else, the one constant for much of his life, was being taken away in a most ignominious way.”

— Craig Lancaster

“She's aggressive and grabs my wiener, though, I may have to come up with another plan.”

— Craig Lancaster

I am nervous about this game. The Cowboys' best player, quarterback Tony Romo, is not going to play because he has a broken finger. The Cowboys ought to be able to win without Tony Romo because the St. Louis Rams are terrible, but I am still nervous.

— Craig Lancaster

“I offer to shake hands with Kyle, but he insists on a high five, something I've never done. I've seen the Dallas Cowboys do it, and it looks like great fun.”

— Craig Lancaster

“I know about how you need to be left alone to do work. I know why. This job, you'll be allowed to do that. You'll report to me, but when you're here, you'll be working on tasks that I assign and that you'll be able to do by yourself.”

— Craig Lancaster

Viewed in abstractions, love is the same thing for everybody. It thrills the same way, and devastates with bloodless efficiency.

— Craig Lancaster

“You can make yourself crazy, refiguring it all after the fact. You did what you thought was best at the time. You helped a friend. That's what matters.”

— Craig Lancaster

The only way to bury the past is to build tomorrow on top of it.

— Craig Lancaster

“This much, too: never again will we keep our hearts waiting.”

— Craig Lancaster

“I cleared the air again. "Oh, I'm plenty stupid. But not on this. And I'm not cruel. Don't let him fight again. Hell, you shouldn't have let him fight tonight. I'm all for that. But it's not going to kill you to let him go with the knowledge that nobody ever knocked him out cold. Besides, it isn't me you have to convince anyway." Squeaky ran the gym, ran the Tuesday night fights, but his daddy, Frank, was the boss. He knew this sure as I did.”

— Craig Lancaster

“Crying comes from many sources and has many causes: anger, frustration, sadness, lack of sleep. I think I am suffering from all four, and I think that is why I have been crying.”

— Craig Lancaster

“Dr. Buckley says that all people have things they are good at and not so good at and that if I like someone, I should appreciate his or her good points and forgive the bad. This makes sense to me. Dr. Buckley is a very logical woman.”

— Craig Lancaster

Love is bullshit and weird and stupid, but shit, man, if you have love, everybody should leave you alone and let you keep it for as long as you can.

— Craig Lancaster

Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome.

— Craig Lancaster