37 Quotes by Robert Coover

In a sense, omnipotence is a form of impotence.

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn’t always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.

Their wedding night was in all truth a thing of beauty: the splendor of the celebrations, the hushed intimacy of a private walk under the cryptic light of a large moon, the unexpected delight discovered in the reflection of a candle’s flicker in a decanter of aged wine, finally the silent weeping in each other’s arms through a night that seemed infinite in its innumerable dimensions.

When you’re living with a mob of other people, it’s hard not to fall into thinking like as they do, and then you ain’t YOU no more.

She made them all laugh and forget for a moment that they were dying men.

It was down in Jake’s old barroom Behind the Patsies’ park; Jake was settin’ ’em up as usual And the night was agittin’ dark. At the bar stood ole Verne Mackenzie, And his eyes was bloodshot red.

I nearly drownded on the Big River back home, but I didn’t. Instead, I come to love the river, though the river never loved me. That’s how it was with this horse. Ever so splendid and mighty, but indifferent as running water.

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

It’s not even a lesson. It’s just what it is.” Damon holds the baseball up between them. It is hard and white and alive in the sun.