116 Quotes by Rick Moody

If God had designed the orchestra, then the cello was His greatest accomplishment.

Isn’t a tangle of limbs a glorious thing to behold? Don’t you wish to be in a tangle of limbs?

Never the romance without the bloodshed!

Deviants and losers and mutants and the loveless...were the proper readers of Marvel comics.

The idea of betrayal was in the air. The Summer of Love had migrated, in its drug-resistant strain, to the Connecticut suburbs about five years after its initial introduction.

There are men who need to defile themselves in order to get on with their lives.

I noted too that I had on many occasions spoken on the subject of the pollution of the spirit (or so I told them), and how the spirit should not be polluted, and how I personally looked askance at, for instance, a latte.

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

writing about the classics is a really important exercise, because you really need to dig deep to do it