Russell Banks Inspirational Quotes (30)

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.

Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.