"Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue."

-- James Wolcott

#Humble Quotes #Average Quotes #Oil Quotes

“One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.”
“However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.”
“I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.”

Source : "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.
“Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.”
“Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.”
“Simple DNA gradually morphed and evolved, so that you had the coming into being of ever more complex and diverse creatures, until one day you wake up and find there are peacocks and giraffes. Nature is an open-ended experiment based on morphing a DNA code, and ours is an open-ended experiment based on morphing a crochet code.”
“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.”
“You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2014). “The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler, Two Novels”, p.22, Penguin

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