116 Quotes by Rick Moody

There were just enough flaws to make her perfect.

There should be a sex-related metric with which you could measure sex in hotels, especially the illicit variety, but of what would that metric consist? How about increments of remorse?

The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.

What was boring was somehow more elegant, more perfect, for it was incontrovertible. The boring was everything that certainly was. The boring was everything that had stood the test of time. The boring was that set of truths that were so long fixed that erosion had begun to sand them down. The boring was geological; the boring was universal. The boring, therefore, was preferable.

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

The thing you did to alleviate the loneliness was to take off your clothes and touch someone, even if you didn’t really know the person well.

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

Normally, I am a little insecure about myself without a shirt on, as my days of being attractive are now behind me.

A bed is where a sense of shared purpose first takes root.