38 Quotes by J. R. Moehringer

I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.

Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

If only Ed Fleming had a mother who gave such sound advice. The manager of Wazoo's, a downtown Denver restaurant, Fleming is a CSU alum who has been darned giddy about the Rams' recent success. So giddy that he donned a necklace made of Pez candies, a red blazer - and nothing else. A few people gaped (some actually set aside their beers), but most ignored Fleming as he strutted like a red-blazered rooster, demanding that all hail the Mighty Naked Beer King.

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.