Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day. — Sam Lipsyte Inspirational Copy Share Image
“His eyes had the ebb of his liver in them and he bore the air of a man who looks right at… — Sam Lipsyte Eyes Copy Share Image
I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from… — Sam Lipsyte Emotion Copy Share Image
People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte Alive Copy Share Image
Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know. — Sam Lipsyte Funny Copy Share Image
I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“I looked for Gary in all of the Gary places, but I was too early. These places were all haunted by the… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing… — Sam Lipsyte Facts Copy Share Image
When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book… — Sam Lipsyte Book Copy Share Image
“Our friendship, for example, and how quickly we passed through each other, from fascinated strangers to loyal chums to relics of each… — Sam Lipsyte Brotherhood Copy Share Image
You could touch for a couple of bucks. The window of the booth went up and you stuck out the bills. They… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that… — Sam Lipsyte Alive Copy Share Image
“Lee was my father’s lawyer, a mensch. But he’s been very sick. Cancer. Pancreatic.” “That’s one of the worst. A killer.” “Yes,… — Sam Lipsyte Parenting Copy Share Image
“They sought each other, missed each other, at cocktail parties, in train terminals, at flower shops, their fin de siecle Nokias gaining… — Sam Lipsyte Fitness Copy Share Image
Of All the Gin Joints is one part cinematic history, one part old Hollywood weirdness, and one part handy basic bar guide,… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is… — Sam Lipsyte Book Copy Share Image
“We’d been walking in endless rectangles and now we were near the candy store again. The lights were out, the security gate… — Sam Lipsyte Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“So, yes, I should have just surrendered, cinched the entitled scion her little pouch of entitlements, put in my calls to the… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless… — Sam Lipsyte Art Copy Share Image
The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your… — Sam Lipsyte Language Copy Share Image
I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I… — Sam Lipsyte Age Copy Share Image
“You said you were having a dream.” “It’s true, I did.” “Was it the one where you’re inside the girl and you… — Sam Lipsyte Dreams Copy Share Image
“Yes,” said Cooley. “That is the question, as the Bard might say.” “The Bard?” “What’s so funny?” said Cooley. “Nothing, sir,” I… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“The Rough Beast snorted. “You don’t get it at all, buddy. It’s not about wrestling. It’s about stories. We’re storytellers.” Caperton studied… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Who exactly are we?' I asked. The American Dreamers. There aren't too many of us left.' I don't know if I qualify.'… — Sam Lipsyte American dream Copy Share Image
“Oh, do you, Milo? You’re so selfish. You don’t see the bigger picture.” “What’s the bigger picture?” “You’re still here looking for… — Sam Lipsyte Bigger picture Copy Share Image
“I was also one of those people who hadn’t caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged to most of… — Sam Lipsyte Black death Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow she’d look up tattoo removal. They were doing big things with lasers now. When Cal was just a little more stable,… — Sam Lipsyte Big things Copy Share Image
“I needed to talk to Vargina, to straighten this out, but felt suddenly faint, headed for the deli across the street. Just… — Sam Lipsyte Comfort food Copy Share Image
“Fuck,” said Bernie. “Fuckwinky eyeballhead.” “No, Bernie. We don’t use those words.” “Which words?” “You know which words.” “You used them, Daddy.”… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy.… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image