Quotes from Johnny Rich

A good book is not the same as a successful one.

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects

Silent is an anagram of listen.

You inherit your environment just as much as your genes.

The future is certain. It is just not known.

But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he's right?

Nothing's random. Even if it looks that way, it's just because you don't know the causes.

He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.

Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.

Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.

In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.

So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?

An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they're creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can't make it better.

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

Job understood that he was nothing more than God's invention and so too was his suffering

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows

I may not be free, but I'm not about to surrender the illusion of choice.

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

There is a distinction between a relationship which has a routine and a relationship which becomes routine

I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

Can we say, in this case, that the cause of a cause is the relevant cause?