The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films..

Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse..

I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down..

When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, the….

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands..

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame..

You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies..

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own..

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever..

And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I lov….

Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, ….

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something..

Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by..

Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain..

If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it..

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money..

I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered it- that no one had ever read it or kn….

Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an o….

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D..

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the….