01UndatedA novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
02UndatedWho can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own bookJohnny Rich / quote ↗
03UndatedGrief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or lonelinessJohnny Rich / quote ↗
04UndatedIn the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
05UndatedTime passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
07UndatedTo reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
08UndatedInhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
11UndatedI don’t see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with great human tragedies played out before your eyes without ever taking notice. Or you could see a universe in the smallest thing. The way a person takes their coffee, for example, might say something profound and important about that person, about all humanity, about existence itself.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
13UndatedGood writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
14UndatedHe did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothingJohnny Rich / quote ↗
15UndatedThe bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous loveJohnny Rich / quote ↗
16UndatedIs cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?Johnny Rich / quote ↗
19UndatedThe silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
20UndatedThe only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connectsJohnny Rich / quote ↗
21UndatedWouldn’t a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?Johnny Rich / quote ↗
22UndatedBeing gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.Johnny Rich / quote ↗
