20 Quotes by Binnie Kirshenbaum

Henry told me he is often the life of the party, as if he didn’t already know that to be the life of the party is the most sad and pathetic of all things to be.

I probably said something about being happy for him, because I was happy for him, although to be happy for someone else doesn’t mean that you are happy for yourself.

A kind of happy that, if manifested into tangibility, would’ve taken the shape of a daisy.

But there are no happy endings unless we cut the story short, and as far as I know, there are no rules of etiquette to a miracle, either.

Maybe it has something to do with the pull of the moon because, despite the statistical improbability of any two people meeting up, it is inevitable that the tremulous are drawn to the languished, the sick to the broken, the forsaken to the sad, every pot has its cover, and the funny to the funny ones, too.

Lots of things should be, but aren’t.

But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don’t always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don’t always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.

Fun not shared is not fun. You can derive great pleasure alone, enjoy yourself enormously, experience bliss, but fun requires someone else, like a friend or a dog.

People who are not easy to like, they have feelings just like nice people do.