Quotes from Geoffrey Wolff

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

No cheap tricks.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

Writing has nothing to do with pretty manners, and less to do with sportsmanship or restraint [...] Every writer begins as a subversive, if in nothing more than the antisocial means by which he earns his keep. Finally, every fantasist who cannibalizes himself knows that misfortune is his friend, that grief feeds and sharpens his fancy, that hatred is as sufficient a spur to creation as love (and a world more common) and that without an instinct for lunacy he will come to nothing.

As I liked him less and less I became more and more like him. I felt trapped, didn't care for myself.

answered the phone: "My

On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag.

John said: "Your father is dead." And I said: "Thank God." John