Quotes from Andrew Klavan

The Ruling Class by Peter Barnes.

He had one more glimpse of them as he pulled the Jeep out: three figures captured in the headlights, a child clinging to a woman, a man with his arms around the woman's shoulders, the snow coming down on them, man, woman, and child, like figures in a Christmas globe.

Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man.

What's the penalty for possessing meth in California?" Winter asked. "A stern talking to?" "Pretty much. If that. It's a misdemeanor. A violation of the Health and Safety Code. There's a fine. You can get up to a year in jail if you did something stupid while you were high, like drove your car over a group of schoolchildren. Something like that might be frowned upon.

know myself in them, through them. Because they are what we've become. Every blessing from soup bowls to salvation they discovered for us.

Morality is not a one not song. It's a harmony of obligations to man and God.

She was struck, too, by how often in this sad life a person's gifts are useless in helping him fulfill his true desire.

I knew that no matter how confusing things get, how many voices are shouting lies, how many wrong turns you take, how many dead ends you run into, there is always, always the truth to find, always the truth somewhere, burning, shining.

When you make sense, you say what you believe and therefore mean what you say and therefore act in accordance with it and therefore you are who you seem to be.

I was an investigative reporter for the Soho Star, a radical weekly with an office on lower Broadway. I spent my working hours hunting down obnoxious landlords, highlighting cultural offenses against blacks and homosexuals, and seeking out corruption in any official who did not believe in the state as a sort of Nanny Robin Hood, stealing from the rich to fund its infantilizing care for the poor.

The camera has a short memory. But the pen remembers forever.

At the movies — in the arts — conservative reality almost always comes disguised as fantasy whereas leftist fantasy comes disguised as reality!

They are weary of war, but war is what we live for. They are afraid of death, but death is what we love.

The world had no beauty of its own. The beauty of the world was created in the human experience, in me. The very fact of beauty, the very idea that something could be beautiful, only existed in me. The point was not to see the world....The point was to experience the world.

To escape from the little island of the living.

A car in LA is like an accent in England: it instantly reveals everything about you. My Nissan sputtered along a freeway streaked with the afterimages of the sleek, low-slung racers that were flashing past me, each as quick as a dismissive glance.

You can not know the truth about the world until you know God loves you, because that is the truth about the world.

The road to heaven isn't death, Tom. It's life.

Mike had seen some pretty awful things in the wars in the Middle East, I guess. He'd learned there was not too much stuff in life that needed to be taken seriously. Just the right stuff. Just enough.

That was the trouble with searching for the truth. It wasn't always pleasant. It wasn't always something you wanted to find.

Beth was always warm and interested in what you were saying. She made you feel like you were the only person in the world she cared about.

It was all the same every year. And that's how I liked it. I never wanted it to be different, not even a little bit. It's funny. When you're young, you always want things to change. You want to grow up. You want to go to new places, do new things. But in the end, it's the things like Christmas, the things that are always the same, that you love the most.

In the end, life becomes literature, and literature has meaning because life has meaning.

With one of those long biblical beards men grow when their heads can no longer contain their self-regard and it simply flows out of their chins all the way down to their sternums. Also a black ponytail. Also a purple flower tattoo on his neck. Also a ring in his nose. Oh, how original and eccentric he was!