29 Quotes by Jean Shepherd

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.

Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you’re not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It’s not just a possibility. It is a certainty.

The show was over and you had a sinister feeling that out there in the darkness all over the country there were millions of kids – decoding.

I have never understood why the pig is an animal whose name is used in derision. He is intelligent and kindly, often benevolent, in fact; in short, totally with it.

My mind, as is so often the case these days, was totally blank.

Everything comes to he who waits. I guess. At last, after at least 200 years of constant vigil, there was delivered to me a big, fat, lumpy letter. There are few things more thrilling in Life than lumpy letters. That rattle. Even to this day I feel a wild surge of exultation when I run my hands over an envelope that is thick, fat, and pregnant with mystery.