Quotes from Jonathan Carroll

I sat in airport hell wondering once again why there is nothing to do in airports. Why hasn't some enterprising genius yet realized all us bored ticket holders would adore, flock to, pay hard cash for any diversions that lasted longer than a cruise through the magazine racks or dull necktie store?

Good old Nails ambled up the stairs and sat down next to me, panting out a kind of quick Kaa-kaa-kaa sound. We watched the tomato pickers and I put my hand on his rock head. Bull terriers have rocks for heads; they only pretend that they are skin and bones.

People are always waiting to be discovered.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.

I feel like a cliche.

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.

Everything you want in life has teeth.

The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.