What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“What's friendship's realest measure? I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“All we really want is to get to the point where the past can explain nothing about us and we can get… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“entering the past is a precarious business, since the past strives but always half-fails to make us who we are.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“It was as if I'd already left some time before and was just catching up with myself.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The past is the prism through which we see a great, great, great deal of ourselves; it's a useful prism. It doesn't… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Against these forces -- an earth rotating, a sun lowering its angle in the sky, winds filling with rain and the geese… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“And since that is not how it has been for a long time, you want, this time, to make it last, this… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“I thought that the difference between a successful life and an unsuccessful one, between me at that moment and all the people… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunderstood or forgotten over time,… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Such narrowly missed human connection as this can in fact be fatal, no matter who's at fault, and often results in unrecoverable… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Plenty of times I've seen writers, famous novelists and essayists, even poets, with names you'd recognize and whose work I admire, drift… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“I walked out of the condos onto the flat lithesome beach this morning, and took a walk in my swimming trunks and… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those… — Richard Ford Copy Share
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. — Richard Ford Copy Share
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married… — Richard Ford Copy Share
“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.” — Richard Ford Copy Share
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff… — Richard Ford Copy Share
There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also… — Richard Ford Copy Share
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are… — Richard Ford Copy Share
“to sit in the empty stands of a Florida ball park and hear the sounds of glove leather and chatter;” — Richard Ford Copy Share
“And what there is to learn from almost any human experience is that your own interests usually do not come first where other people… — Richard Ford Copy Share
