T.C. Boyle Quotes
I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?
A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.
The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.
For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)
i want to go to the gymand pretend the weight machines are drumsand play the longest drum solo on them
Success and failure, ultimately, have little to do with living the gospel. Jesus just stood with the outcasts until they were welcomed or until he was crucified — whichever came first.
Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the elements or principles of them.
Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.
But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling lik
The choices we make impact not only our life but everyone we come into contact with daily!
i had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry
There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.
shrimp and green peppers are shriveling in my refrigerator
Making a home is hard work, and for some reason it's underappreciated. It's way to make sense of things.
She wished him at her side this very moment. If only to turn it all to rights by doing his very best to turn it all to ruin.
i wish i had 15-20 cats that would serve as a blanket, like if i moved they would adjust to my new position, that would be good
i wish cats could float around your head
my cat is always looking at me like i am forgetting something crucial and he depends on it
But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy?
Bullies are weak!Bullies are cowards!Bullies are full of hot air!Time to let go of the balloons and let the bullies, Fly Away!
i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages
He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.
Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.
There is only one history of any importance and it is the history of what you once believed in and the history of what you came to believe in.
Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.
I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.
I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.
You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
