Quotes from David Adams Richards

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

no one can do an injury to you without doing an injury to themselves.

What should I get from books?" Alcide asked in French. That you are not alone — even along this broken tractor road. You need to know nothing else," my father answered in French.

I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.

Now the end is going to come - in one fashion or another, Bines said, softly, and again he turned to Ralphie and smiled. We all know, the end will come. You either face your hunters or run from them.

You do not understand -- no accomplishment overcomes the stigma of being different. [...] I try not to think about it and cannot eat my supper or nothing. I didn't understand it at first. But now I do. You are not different in the way difference is acceptable but in another, bigger way.

If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

When she stamped her foot, it made a strange thud on the desolate beach. Like a heartbeat.

Some people just have more of a chance than others, and some just have to take the chances that they have. I know a lot of people who were more unfortunate than Jerry Bines, who turned out much better-

and wind whispered in the porch. Didn't I tell my father I would kill him? And should I? I searched the house. I heard a noise and went into

to speak, felt weak, and fell in front of her. She got