Johnny Rich Quotes

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

There’s no such thing as probability," she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.

He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.

Stories are just lies made to look like truth.

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around.

Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows

I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice.

That small difference made all the difference.

All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.

Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.