172 Quotes by Walter Kirn

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it’s someone else’s witch being hunted.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you’re not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

I still believe in love. I always will. It’s my blessing and my burden.

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you’re lost now.

It’s no accident that most self-help groups use ‘anonymous’ in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn’t be honest all along.

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn.

He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can’t make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.