633 quotes found
Novelist · American · 1962
American novelist (born 1962)
“The lucky ones are just born dead.”
“I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.”
“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.”
“Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.”
“It sounds as if you'd like to be God.”
“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.”
“Believe in me and you shall die, forever.”
“The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.”
“If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.”
“If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.”
“Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.”
“What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.”
“Le stelle in cieloNon conoscono l'iraBla, bla, bla, fine”
“What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”
“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
“We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.”
“Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.”
“Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.”
“Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.”