30 Quotes by Rafael Yglesias

Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.

There’s nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.

Oh God, I’m old and I’ve never been young.

After puberty, you look to one sex for more than friendship and to the other for less-than-complete intimacy.

It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.

I’m willing to keep an open mind about the existence of God or whether or not Joye’s Ulysses is a great novel, but I have no doubt that one way or another child molesters are nurtured, not born.

Also, serial killers, child killers, they’re hot, they’re the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody’s favourite spook monster.

Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child?

The world is chock-full of monsters.