“It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.” PeopleSometimesRememberTurnsStuffMemoriesHappenedSceneDetails Author:Rick Moody
“I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsMightOrderCreativeCuriousDemonFewerBe Creative Author:Rick Moody
“The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.” PeopleMenFeelingsProblemAgeAbleForceWhiteMiddleEffectsHavensExampleHigherDrugSuicideRateAlcoholEtcGet BackArticlesImaginaryWhite ManMiddle AgesRecessionsDemographicsGallopingGreat Recession Author:Rick Moody
“My suspicion is that this is an unavoidable human dilemma, that people will always want to avoid pain, to avoid those who are in pain, and so will be vulnerable to anyone or anything that seems to promise permanent avoidance.” PeoplePainPromiseVulnerableSuspicionDilemmaAvoidance Author:Rick Moody
“People know that pain is part of our nature, that it cannot be avoided and that it should not be avoided. But capitalism in this country is focused on the idea 1) that life can and should be absolutely beautiful; 2) that beauty can be defined according to an ironclad objective standard; 3) that beauty can be held onto forever if only you do the right things perfectly enough; and 4) that it can be purchased.” PeopleCountryEnoughPainBeautifulForeverCapitalismFocusedRight Thing Author:Rick Moody
“I think people on antidepressants often lose sexual feelings. I don't mean that I think sex is only about sadness; it is obviously about joy and vitality and birth as well.” PeopleThinkingMeanFeelingsJoySadnessBirth Author:Rick Moody
“Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?” PeopleLoveHeartMeanSeemsRunningAgeTurnsFallOpportunityViolenceSkyBrokenSafeLowsMurderBlueDestroyedRuinsIntimateBusSailingCeremonyCalamityBlue SkySyllablesMortificationBranded Author:Rick Moody
“I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.” PeopleTryingStuffJuryKeep TryingDead People Author:Rick Moody
