I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been…

I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility…And the paradox of it all has been that whenever…

— Rick Moody

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

— Rick Moody

Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a…

— Rick Moody

Literature precedes genre.

— Rick Moody

I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.

— Rick Moody

“Words are the oldest information storage and retrieval system ever devised. Words are probably older than the cave paintings in France, words have been…

— Rick Moody

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

— Rick Moody

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

— Rick Moody

The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among…

— Rick Moody

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

— Rick Moody

I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

— Rick Moody

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff -…

— Rick Moody

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

— Rick Moody

“[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.”

— Rick Moody

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the…

— Rick Moody