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.

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

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

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the....

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

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive....

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

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