Latest Quotes

“This is the closest I will ever come to writing an autobiography.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick

“The expression ‘Breakfast of Champions’ is a registered trademark of General Mills, Inc., for use on a breakfast cereal product.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions: A Novel

“This is the only story of mine whose moral I know.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Many still consider it an accident that Nazi ideology centered around antisemitism and that Nazi policy, consistently and uncompromisingly, aimed at the persecution and finally the extermination of the Jews.”

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“My first indication that food was something other than a substance one stuffed in one's face when hungry—like filling up at a gas station—came after fourth grade in elementary school.”

— Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)

“Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.”

— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel

“There's a photo on my wall of a woman I've never met, its left corner torn and patched together with tape.”

— Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“'What's it going to be then, eh?'”

— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.”

— John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“the naked parrot looked like a human fetus spliced onto a kosher chicken.”

— Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

“While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.”

— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.”

— William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text

“A man on a park bench has a lonely final look, as if to say: Reduce humanity to its ultimate particles and you end here; beyond this single separate being you cannot go.”

— Randall Jarrell, The Man Who Loved Children

“They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.”

— Elie Wiesel, Night Reissue Edition

“Books, just like people, a destiny.”

— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)

“This is a story about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country.”

— Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

“I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.”

— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest: A Novel

“I’m not in love with you. But that doesn’t mean that you’re not an important person in my life.”

— Grace Jung, The Moon Hangs Like A Stupid Mistake