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Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
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I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.
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Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.
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Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.
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The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.
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Complexity is the enemy of clarity
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I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it.
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Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.
