The Human Script
A source page for quotes linked to Johnny Rich.
“Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.”
“Wouldn’t a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?”
“Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.”
“I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.”
“Stories are just lies made to look like truth.”
“Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?”
“These are the things you don’t say, even to someone you love.”
“Silent is an anagram of listen.”
“I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice.”
“He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing”
“To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.”
“I’m a bit-part actor in my own life”
“Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.”
“In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.”
“To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.”
“As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.”
“So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.”
“Read the book of life or a life in a book: it’s all epigraphs and anagrams.”
“Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.”
“The future is certain. It is just not known.”
“I stare out at the real world projected on the windows”
“Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.”