Quotes by : Rick Moody

There should be a sex-related metric with which you could measure sex in hotels, especially the illicit....

My idea of literature, as I have often said, is that it should save lives. My idea of literature is that....

The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.

The thing you did to alleviate the loneliness was to take off your clothes and touch someone, even if....

What kind of woman was she? What kind of woman was it who called to me from that calamity on the Seventh....

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

What was boring was somehow more elegant, more perfect, for it was incontrovertible. The boring was everything....

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.