Quotes by : Charles Baxter

You know, very few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim they do, but they....

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring....

When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in....

What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody,....

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief,....

The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us....

Ethics is a dream.

The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage....