Robert Boswell Quotes

I know what the worst sins are," Madeleine said, "and there are only 2 of them: doing nothing, and doing too little.

It looked strange enough to pass for fashion.

Nowism refutes psychology. It says that who you are is who you are. Don’t blame your parents, your upbringing, your culture. Once you are accepting the Now, you’re in control.

The proliferation of weaponry in this country is obscene. But very profitable—capitalism just means moneyism, you know.

But his feelings for me seemed more political than personal. I was a cause, a means by which he could make a name for himself. That hurt.

Making liberty tradable merchandise paves the way to ending independence. Everything becomes a commodity, even freedom.

We arrived in Colorado the day the state legalized cannibalism. Chic restaurants were charging a small fortune for a 6-ounce human steak, and the ludicrously wealthy or hopelessly fashionable paid for the thrill of breaking yet another taboo.

He flashed me a beautiful smile, which made me recall for a moment 1 of the advantages of fame—good-looking groupies.

All I really know about death is precisely what I know about the future: it can’t be predicted, and the more you think you know, the less prepared you are for the surprises.

I had heard somewhere that dreams didn’t exist the way we remembered them, that we pieced them together from fragments and imposed a story when we woke. It occurred to me that this was the same way we made our lives coherent.

Some of the brilliance of my argument escaped my words. Wind whistled through the logical gaps.

I think you’re getting paranoid. Let me correct that: you've been paranoid your whole life, and it’s starting to show again.

People didn’t entirely believe the story, but they acted as if they did. It was like campaign promises—you chose your candidates on the basis of promises you knew they wouldn’t keep. The ability to hold contradictory ideas had become central to getting by in the world.

Hollywood doesn’t want the customer to think, you know what I'm saying?

Everyone wanted a piece of me…And me? What did I want from me?
A normal life would have been nice, but I couldn’t even imagine what that was like. Normal had become 1 of those archaic words like thou, spinster, gentleman, decorum.