What is more yours than what always holds you back?

- James Richardson

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

- James Richardson

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

- James Richardson

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

- James Richardson

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

- James Richardson

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

- James Richardson

I'm a kid checking mail, a kid on his cell with his questions: are we in love, Life, are we exclusive, are we forever?

- James Richardson

Nothing important comes with instructions.

- James Richardson

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

- James Richardson