47 Quotes by Christopher Bram

It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other’s domain.

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.

We’re happier when the assholes are villains.

History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a real event read about in a newspaper is not always more important than a fictional one in a novel or play or poem.