Rick Moody Quotes

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

If God had designed the orchestra, then the cello was His greatest accomplishment.

What was boring was somehow more elegant, more perfect, for it was incontrovertible. The boring was everything that certainly was. The boring was everything that had stood the test of time. The boring...

A bed is where a sense of shared purpose first takes root.

As you may have noticed, here we were living in a Swedish car in the parking lot of a Swedish mega-retailer. ★★

What kind of woman was she? What kind of woman was it who called to me from that calamity on the Seventh Avenue line? What kind of woman do I love now, with a fealty that will not cease, not till my o...

Death was terribly durable. It was the sturdiest idea around. A body was dead, and before long it wasn't even a body anymore, it was just elements. But it was still dead.

There are men who need to defile themselves in order to get on with their lives.

Some people like a bidet, but Mrs. Salk said she does not want to shoot water up herself from a spigot that others have also used.

Deviants and losers and mutants and the loveless...were the proper readers of Marvel comics.

Never the romance without the bloodshed!

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

I was bent on love the way a crow is bent on a flattened squirrel.

Being right and being happy are on opposite ends of this dance that is the life of human machines.

Linda cranked the greatest hits of heartbreak and we sat down on the carpeted floor to listen. I missed you.

It may be one of the most beautiful hotels in the entire world. Were you to discount hotels that are constructed primarily to house sheikhs—hotels that will never house you or me—you would have to con...

To summarize, these are the three main problems of bed-and-breakfast establishments: throw pillows, potpourri, and breakfast conversation, and the fourth problem is gazebos. And the fifth problem is w...

We broke the complimentary cookie obtained in the lobby into small pieces and flung it over the fence of the Indonesian embassy, thinking that the scheming and warlike Indonesians were probably out at...

I was suffering with profound personality change, and if I had to go out onto the highway and stick out my thumb and secure a ride to a Waffle House in order to consume grits in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, I...