148 Quotes by Nicholson Baker

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you’ve watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

I’m suspicious of full-replacement programs – that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.

Sometimes, despite the fact that you’re reading through masses of material, you just can’t not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.

I've always thought of myself as shy.