40 Quotes by Sam Lipsyte

It was early, late, lockjaw hour.

You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?

It's hard to fuck your girlfriend when she's fucked up and you're not. It's harder than the skee-ball they used to have at the Plaza arcade, all that agony over a fuzzy piece.

Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez’s powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.

No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don’t let it eat you from the inside.

Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the novel are dead, I hope we can have more great American novels as alive as this one.

I’m a citizen of the republic of empathy.