"May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday"

“I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject ...”

“Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.”

“I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?”

“He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.”

“Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.”

“Chaos at the bottom means order at the top. Order at the bottom means chaos at the top.”

“Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 25, 2011

“It simply works. You do it twice a year. Who cares? And it balances my smoking and drinking.”