After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing…

- Tom Perrotta

They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, an…

- Tom Perrotta

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

- Tom Perrotta

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost lo…

- Tom Perrotta

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

- Tom Perrotta

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

- Tom Perrotta

From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint yo…

- Tom Perrotta

It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.

- Tom Perrotta

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

- Tom Perrotta