"I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past."

“How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors”

Source : Bradford Morrow (2011). “The Diviner's Tale”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.”

Source : ""The Exchange: Tom Perrotta" by Sarah Larson". www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2011.

“Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?”

“Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search... for the sentence in which every word is unalterable.”

“To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.”

Source : Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Three John Silence Stories”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

“If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?”

“Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.”

“I'm going to tell it straight, that yes, I'd love to be traded”