32 Quotes by Walter Tevis

«La mezza età non esiste, Fast Eddie. È un’invenzione dei giornali e della tv, come l’alitosi. Serve per tenere la gente al suo posto».

I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.

Did they ruin your mind when they ruined your eyes, Mr Newton?’ Newton.

To love the game itself is a fine thing; it is loving the art you live by.

You drop that load too when you find yourself an excuse. Then, afterward, all you got to do is learn to feel sorry for yourself – and lots of people learn to get their kicks that way. It’s one of the best indoor sports, feeling sorry.” Bert’s face broke into an active grin. “A sport enjoyed by all. Especially the born losers.

When literacy died, so had history.

The Age of Technology has rusted.

If I cannot read and learn and have things that are worth thinking about, I would rather immolate myself than go on living. Synthetic.

I have never in my life seemed to see and hear and think so clearly. Can it be because I have not used drugs this day? Or is it this act of writing? The two are so new and have come together so closely that I cannot be sure of which it is. It is extremely strange to feel like this. There is exhilaration to it, but the sense of risk is almost terrifying.