56 quotes found
Novelist · American · 1956
American novelist (born 1956)
“Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.”
“He was a peculiar sight. Tears rolling down his face, shouting to drown the sound of the singing rabbit; he said he needed help, pointed to a chicken, handed over some money, grabbed his parcel and...”
“He didn't remember ever being less weird than he was right now. In fact, as far as he could tell he had always been more or less exactly as weird as this. if not more so.”
“Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.”
“some people are lonely for all the right reasons.”
“I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.”
“I'm sorry I started all this by trying to fly and I'd take it back if I could but I can't, so please think of it from my point of view: if you die I will have a dead brother and it will be me inste...”
“A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.”
“In the meantime, Charlie learnt to fly. Dorothea fell in love. Peter discovered a new star. And a great number of things happened to Justin. Hundreds of millions of ordinary, unexpected, and occasi...”
“How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.”
“Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.”
“Someday I'll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.”
“Look, I say. You can't just let your thoughts float around in the ether and hope eventually they'll connect with something. It's absurd.No, it's not, Gil says. Lots of good things happen that way. ...”
“If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.”
“Where's your dog?" Peter's voice came from within the gushing stream of water. Justin thought he must have misheard."Pardon?""Your dog.""Yes?""Isn't he with you today?" Justin looked at Peter."Ha b...”
“After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.”
