30 Quotes by Joseph McElroy

I sat reading from first thing in the morning till the middle of the afternoon. I used to get a phone call twice a day for a while. A variety of dirty phone calls I called a Sadness Call or a Tragedy Call: I’d pick up, and all I’d hear was someone weeping.

And when she said, What do you want to be when you grow up? some kid said, A good burglar, and we all laughed, and she said, Why not an anarchist? – that’s a burglar with self-respect.

Memory kept things from being over.