Quotes from Kate O'Brien

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

Wherever you go, the most of life will have to happen in your mind.

That which was and is no more is hidden treasure.

He was new to the sycophancy and cowardice of men; their inability to think alone appalled him as much as did their need to get together and reassure themselves with windy words.

Life had given her nothing but money, a poor gift

once the mind has known and wrestled with happiness, it has secured as good a shield as may be found against the loneliness of time—

long ago and with open eyes she had made her own bargain with fate, attesting then that if love killed her as it might, she would have no grievance. She had had to go this way to know his love, and she was well satisfied to have it so.

A laugh is a terrible weapon.

I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells.

If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.

Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.