“ TV was entertainment of the last resort. There was nothing on during the day in the summer other than game shows and soap operas. Besides, a TV-watching child was considered available for chores: take… Pete Hautman
“ Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I’ll tell you. They’re secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait. Wait for what? To be forgott… Pete Hautman
“ Anyway, the reason I hate communion isn't the meat-eating component. I get hungry enough, I'll eat anything. The reason I hate it is because everybody in the church except me, Jason Bock, stands up an… Pete Hautman
“ Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin. Pete Hautman
“ We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there. Pete Hautman
“ I once read a short story about some cannibals who didn't turn their victims into steaks and chops and roasts; they made them all into sausages. Because when you're eating a sausage you don't think so… Pete Hautman
“ Figuring out was is real isn’t always possible, because our own brains are telling us stories Pete Hautman
“ You already have the capacity to travel through time. Simply wait for the future to arrive. Pete Hautman
“ I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so. Pete Hautman
“ Dan is my ordinary friend. Everybody should have at least one ordinary friend and Dan is as ordinary as they come. He is so ordinary that most people have to meet him six or seven times before they re… Pete Hautman
“ How do you know it's true if you don't believe in it?I...huh?How can you understand something you don't believe in?Shin, that doesn't make any sense. That's like saying you can't understand leprechaun… Pete Hautman
