Matthew Quick

I am practicing being kind over being right.

— Matthew Quick

I am trying to be kind instead of right.

— Matthew Quick

“I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was”

— Matthew Quick

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.

— Matthew Quick

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

— Matthew Quick

I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.

— Matthew Quick

“Different is good. But different is hard.”

— Matthew Quick

...I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.

— Matthew Quick

“No one tips a farting cabdriver, so do yourself a favor and get some TUMS”

— Matthew Quick

“Any white man with half a brain in America can make a good living if he really wants to”

— Matthew Quick

“Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit.”

— Matthew Quick

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck...

— Matthew Quick

“Appearances, appearances. The great facade. How to Live Blindly in a Blind World 101.”

— Matthew Quick

“I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough.”

— Matthew Quick

“it’s your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.”

— Matthew Quick

I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

— Matthew Quick

“So I pull Tifanny closer, kiss the hard spot between her perfectly plucked eyebrows, and after a deep breath, I say, "I…

— Matthew Quick

“By now, ten trees must have been cut down just to document my mental health, which Nikki will hate hearing, as she…

— Matthew Quick

“Perfect doesn't exist for people like us, Bartholomew. Passable. That's what I want. Just simply passable. If I could have a passable…

— Matthew Quick

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which…

— Matthew Quick

“Maybe you will never be able to forgive me, but I wanted you to know I had the best intentions-and I still…

— Matthew Quick

“You don't always get the role you're going to play in life, but it's good to play whatever role you got the…

— Matthew Quick

“Going to the movies? Fuck that! You have to sit with fucking asshole strangers and you never know which one has a…

— Matthew Quick

“Most people lose the ability to see silver linings even though they are always there above us almost every day.”

— Matthew Quick

“I remembered a line I read in the Dalai Lama’s book A Profound Mind. “It is important that we understand just how…

— Matthew Quick

“But I'll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life…

— Matthew Quick

Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they…

— Matthew Quick

You want to be a good person, don't you, Pat?' I nod. I cry. I do want to be a good person,…

— Matthew Quick

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at…

— Matthew Quick

“I admire you your willingness to offer kindness almost indiscriminately. But unfortunately, it takes a lot more than kindness to survive in…

— Matthew Quick

“I nod and I promise I will report any hallucinations to my mother, but I do not really believe I will hallucinate…

— Matthew Quick

“For some things there are no explanations - no reasons, and so, when these things happen, there is nothing to talk about…

— Matthew Quick

“It worries me that I can be so explosive one day -- volatile enough to commit a murder-suicide -- and then the…

— Matthew Quick

“Whenever I have some free time I wonder about what Herr Silverman might be hiding, and I try to unlock his mystery…

— Matthew Quick

“Show me it’s possible to be an adult and also be happy. Please. This is a free country. You don’t have to…

— Matthew Quick

“Art value always goes up once the artist’s associated with fucked-up things such as cutting off his own ear like Van Gogh,…

— Matthew Quick

“Real life often ends badly, like our marriage did, Pat. And literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is…

— Matthew Quick

“Why would god allow the Holocaust to happen? If god made everything, why did he invent sin to trick us and then…

— Matthew Quick

“Sometimes I actually hope that he did once feel empty and hopeless and helpless enough to slash his wrists to the bone,…

— Matthew Quick

“When I read the actual story-how Gatsby loves Daisy so much but can't ever be with her no matter how hard he…

— Matthew Quick