Top 15 Robert Boswell Quotes

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.

Art," Frankly goes on, "has always been a polite form of terrorism.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Ersatz rights led to ersatz economics—prosthetic loans, junkmoney xFunds, WallaDough, CapitalStinge, Reaganomics.

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.

It looked strange enough to pass for fashion.

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