Hunger is my crime.
As for romance, Frank had dated a few women over the years but found them to be too inconsistent and illogical, so he dated a few men and found them to be even more random and frightening.
Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children’s hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this without ever striking any human being in anger. Does this absence of physical violence make you a better man than you might otherwise have been?
Here’s the score. Once a thing tastes blood, it will come for more.
If human beings possessed endless possibilities, then cities contained exponential hopes.
If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it.
You have to treat your car with love. And I don’t mean love of an object. You see, that’s just wrong. That’s materialism. You have to love your car like it’s sentient being, like it can love you back. Now, that’s some deep-down agape love.
Seymour looked around the Tucson McDonald’s. There were white people and Mavajos; there were people who preferred their Quarter Pounders with cheese and those who didn’t care for cheese at all; and there were those who desperately wish that McDonald’s would introduce onion rings to its menu.
I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.
And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.
People can do things completely against their nature, completely. It’s like some tiny earthquake comes roaring through your body and soul, and it’s the only earthquake you’ll ever feel. But it damages so much, cracks the foundations of your life forever.
He said his prayers just in case his parents had been wrong about God all those years.
What’s real? I ain’t interested in what’s real. I’m interested in how things should be.
You wouldn’t think there is anything life threatening about speech impediments, but let me tell you, there is nothing more dangerous than being a kid with a stutter and a lisp.
Okay, so it’s like each of these books is a mystery. Every book is a mystery. And if you read all of the books ever written, it’s like you’ve read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you keep on learning so much more you need to learn.
That’s right I am a book kisser. Maybe that’s kind of perverted or maybe it’s just romantic and highly intelligent.
A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.
If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
What kind of life can you have in a house without books?