Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

- Brock Clarke

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

- Brock Clarke

Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

- Brock Clarke

When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is…

- Brock Clarke