Quotes from Johnny Rich

That small difference made all the difference.

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

Rejection is no badge of honour.

The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love

He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing

Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.

To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God's existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something.

To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.

His suffering was no more real than he was.

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.

I can make another list because the choice is mine. A list of what to do. So I won't be listless ever again.

I'm a bit-part actor in my own life

The 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.

Leo is looking down. Leo is looking down and his eyes and skin and hair like dark melted chocolate and he's saying to me, "Hello.

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

Being 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.

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

People don't always want quality. A good book is not always successful and a successful one is not always good.

To talk of probability is to suggest that events might happen differently from the way they do, whereas events themselves will unfold according to an inevitable path.

Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.