31 quotes found
“I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.”
“How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness.”
“She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.”
“Judging by your face, the what-the-fuck nodes in your cerebral cortex must be a real light show.”
“We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.”
“Is this what Principal Fontana meant by the phrase 'well-rounded'?Its fucking spherical, Catamounts.”
“I was also one of those people who hadnt caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged to most of them. She passed most evenings befriending men who had tried to date-rape her in...”
“They werent like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.”
“You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.”
“I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.”
“Wed been walking in endless rectangles and now we were near the candy store again. The lights were out, the security gate down. We leaned up against the wall of a bank and I could feel the cool sto...”
“Oh, do you, Milo? Youre so selfish. You dont see the bigger picture. Whats the bigger picture? Youre still here looking for handouts. Whos going to take care of me? Im on my knees here, Mom. Not fo...”
“Yes, said Cooley. That is the question, as the Bard might say. The Bard? Whats so funny? said Cooley. Nothing, sir, I said. I just didnt know people still used that term. Well, Im a people, Burke. ...”
“Fuck, said Bernie. Fuckwinky eyeballhead. No, Bernie. We dont use those words. Which words? You know which words. You used them, Daddy. I made a mistake. I am sorry I said that word. It isnt helpin...”
“So, yes, I should have just surrendered, cinched the entitled scion her little pouch of entitlements, put in my calls to the name shufflers, done my duty. I thought about that moment later on. Mayb...”
“You said you were having a dream. Its true, I did. Was it the one where youre inside the girl and you are pumping her and pumping her and you are so happy but then it turns out its not a girl, its ...”
“They sought each other, missed each other, at cocktail parties, in train terminals, at flower shops, their fin de siecle Nokias gaining symbolic power with each scene.”
“Why do you think posers pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real. And they know their very desire for it disqualifies them.”
“I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.”
“It's hard to fuck your girlfriend when she's fucked up and you're not. It's harder than the skee-ball they used to have at the Plaza arcade, all that agony over a fuzzy piece.”
“The Rough Beast snorted. You dont get it at all, buddy. Its not about wrestling. Its about stories. Were storytellers.Caperton studied him. Somebody at my job just said that.Its true! You have to b...”
“You think everyone will stay behind and do everything you did all over again, forever. You picture old geezers in jean jackets doing whip-its behind the plaza.”
