Quotes from Johnny Rich

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book

Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around.

You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

Read the book of life or a life in a book: it's all epigraphs and anagrams.

Everything has reasons, even if they're not good ones. And the reasons have reasons.

In every cell in every body in every living thing, strings of words make sentences, meanings locked together

Wouldn't a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?

Genes do not make you, any more than brain chemistry makes you hungry, food makes you breathe, breathing makes you die.

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?

For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.

He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

There's no such thing as probability," she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.

These are the things you don't say, even to someone you love.

Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

Even Damocles developed a routine.

The human genome is a script, waiting for the amino actors, the protein players to strut and fret their hour.

Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.

All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.

I guarantee it will change your life, but only because everything does, however small.

The characters act for reasons that they can't control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it's all just puppetry on the part of the writer.