"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

“I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.”

“Amen,' I exclaim, accidentally spitting out a Raisinet. I pick up the chocolate with a Kleenex and stuff it in my purse. Ten bucks says a month from now I'll have forgotten about it and will finally have said heart attack when I assume a rat shat in there.”

“At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.”

Source : Jodi Thomas (2008). “Twisted Creek”, p.249, Penguin

“Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.”

“My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.”

“In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that they had knowledge did not exempt intellectuals: there is madness everywhere. When one loses control over one's self, the result is madness.”

“With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted to be someone who could sell a lot of books.”

Source : "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

“Look you dead in the face Now tell me how good does it taste”