Tom Perrotta

“I got PTSD from high school.”

— Tom Perrotta

“NO SHOES? WE LOVE YOU!”

— Tom Perrotta

“I was supposed to have a son.”

— Tom Perrotta

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.

— Tom Perrotta

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

— Tom Perrotta

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

— Tom Perrotta

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

— Tom Perrotta

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

— Tom Perrotta

“No one knows what love is," he told me. "If someone says they do, they're full of shit.”

— Tom Perrotta

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

— Tom Perrotta

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

— Tom Perrotta

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something…

— Tom Perrotta

“Things change all the time - abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn't do you that much…

— Tom Perrotta

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay…

— Tom Perrotta

“I'd come to think of sex as this long dark tunnel that turns friends into strangers, strangers into friends.”

— Tom Perrotta

If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.

— Tom Perrotta

“thinking how good it was to be free, away from the baby and from Tom, too, the two people who couldn’t help…

— Tom Perrotta

I know very few writers who outline fully before they start. It just doesn't seem possible to do, because so many things…

— Tom Perrotta

“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever…

— Tom Perrotta

“Eve still marveled on a daily basis at the speed with which her own life had changed. A year ago, she'd been…

— Tom Perrotta

Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from…

— Tom Perrotta

They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden…

— Tom Perrotta

“Abstinence is perfectly reasonable in theory," Gregory said, "It just doesn't work in practice. It's like dieting. You can go a day…

— Tom Perrotta

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line…

— Tom Perrotta

“All she knew was that she’d inflicted pain on someone she cared about, and that always cost you something, even if you…

— Tom Perrotta

“It was surprisingly crowded, a bunch of middle-aged people, mostly women, moving enthusiastically, if a bit awkwardly, to Prince’s “Little Red Corvette,”…

— Tom Perrotta

To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep…

— Tom Perrotta

“But he thought about him a lot in the years that followed, whenever anyone made a fag joke or said that gay…

— Tom Perrotta

“I'm halfway through my life, and as far as I can tell, the real lesson of the past isn't that I made…

— Tom Perrotta

“The G.R. wasn’t big on spelling out its creed; it had no priests or ministers, no scripture, and no formal system of…

— Tom Perrotta

“No matter what she was doing-baking cookies, walking around the lake on a beautiful day, making love to her husband-she felt rushed…

— Tom Perrotta

“I think there have been a lot of writers who’ve been experimenting lately with really sprawling novels that will deal with a…

— Tom Perrotta

“You talk to them. And look at their faces. Cows have very expressive faces." I knew her well enough at that point…

— Tom Perrotta

“He could easily imagine what people would say if they could see him now: exactly the same thing they'd say if someone…

— Tom Perrotta

“Sarah smelled chocolate on Lucy's breath as she leaned forward to plant a soft kiss on the tip of her cute little…

— Tom Perrotta

“Some subjects mixed well with weed, but Chemistry wasn’t one of them.”

— Tom Perrotta

“If I’d known you were coming, he said, I woulda worn my lululemons.”

— Tom Perrotta

“and a smile with a missing tooth. “I was an adorable”

— Tom Perrotta

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

— Tom Perrotta

“Not boots, not shoes, not sneakers, not even Tevas—”

— Tom Perrotta