Slogging Quotes

I`d be dead without my sense of humor. I can`t imagine processing the shit we are slogging our way through in life without it. In a twenty-four-hour space, you get an acute sense of how all of this injustice and out-rage is absurd. There are things that are truly serious, like when one loses his health or gets into a life- threatening accident. But the rest of it.... If you can`t laugh your way through life, then you are fucked. Humor was the first form of armor I ever wore to counteract my self-image. The first girl I ever asked out on a date laughed at me, because she thought I was kidding. While I didn`t cry on the surface, inside I was weeping. But outwardly I made a joke out of the situation. So humor has always been my shield against the slings and arrows. I turn them into something satiric.

When you`re out there going up a hill or you`re slogging it out on the run, I just stop and think to myself that this isn`t 400 miles of walking through frozen Russia, ... That`s a true endurance test.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn`t write or read horror or fantasy, other than children`s fantasy, until I was in my teens.