As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely. — Ron Currie Jr Absence Copy Share Image
Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference. — Ron Currie Jr Fear Copy Share Image
“Compassion is a coat of fur I find particularly ill-fitting.” — Ron Currie Jr Compassion Copy Share Image
“Our departure was as natural and inevitable as the sunrise.” — Ron Currie Jr Departure Copy Share Image
“One aspect of perfection, after all, it stands to reason, will be that our need for imperfection will cease. Or, perhaps more… — Ron Currie Jr Imperfection Copy Share Image
“I sighed, then hated myself for sighing, such an impotent and ultimately dishonest thing to do, the refuge of those lacking the… — Ron Currie Jr Courage Copy Share Image
I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the… — Ron Currie Jr Compunction Copy Share Image
Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“...a flight to Philly, then took the train west through hills and valleys where people sat mourning the loss of steel and… — Ron Currie Jr Fitness Copy Share Image
“Here's to loving for that long, too, and loving perfectly, without error or sorrow, held forever on the edge of madness by… — Ron Currie Jr Desire Copy Share Image
I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know. — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose… — Ron Currie Jr Bible Copy Share Image
All of which raises the question – your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like – a question which men and… — Ron Currie Jr Burden Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's something that we as a species are hardwired for or if it's more of a contemporary phenomenon… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
I think of this a lot in the terms of books. Of course there's a big to-do culturally about e-books versus print… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“Our hearts may have broken in Nebraska but in Colorado they split open along the fractures, crumble to pieces, blow away. The… — Ron Currie Jr Lake Copy Share Image
And knowing that the only alternative to your grief is the nothingness that’s fast approaching, you try to embrace your own sorrow,… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“Because she hides. She doesn't realize it, I don't think, but she hides. Sometimes right in front of you. She can be… — Ron Currie Jr Change Copy Share Image
You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put… — Ron Currie Jr Athlete Copy Share Image
“... where they ate when they were tired and fucked when they were hungry and slept when they were horny...where they felt… — Ron Currie Jr Fear Copy Share Image
“By the way, don’t ever let someone convince you that there’s anything — and I mean anything — good about dying. There… — Ron Currie Jr Art of life Copy Share Image
“Your relationship with your brother will be, in many ways, the most complex and bewildering of all the interpersonal connections you will… — Ron Currie Jr Brother Copy Share Image
“In no time we roll into Sedona proper and find a Cirlce K. The place is full of men with silver ponytails… — Ron Currie Jr Commerce Copy Share Image
I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“...no one likes change unless it is from sommething bad to something good...” — Ron Currie Jr Change Copy Share Image
My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great… — Ron Currie Jr Absurd Copy Share Image
“Time and again the people still in the camp, realizing they were now trapped, called to God in a hundred different dialects.… — Ron Currie Jr Time Copy Share Image
The urge to move is natural and understandable. As will be the case throughout your life, no matter how long or brief,… — Ron Currie Jr Bears Copy Share Image
Some people believe that everyone will experience judgment day. But it's my understanding that the Judgment Day or Rapture that I'm going… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
