41 Quotes by Robert Reed

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

In Reagan's world, we have to be geared up to fight a foe that could barely feed its own people. And meanwhile, our real troubles have to be mocked. Global warming. Nuclear proliferation. Corrupt governments supported by my tax dollars and everyone's complacency.

Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.

A person can spend every day of his life finding examples of our spectacular oddness, and if that's what he likes to do, then his life is destined to be full and rich.

Most people have two cars and a golf cart. We have two carts and a car.

Now, the city's asked us to look at dog waste specifically.

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

It bore absolutely no resemblance to the 'rude cabin' described by racial detractors, ... and was surrounded by a bake house, a milk house, a smokehouse, a chicken house with '44 big hens,' a workhouse, a cow house, and a barn that housed '30 big horned beasts.'

Unlike almost every other novel, I wrote Larks for myself, meaning that it was essentially done when I first showed it to an editor.