“He's been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he's come to expect all the prerogatives of being an artist without ever doing the work. I mean he's an art bum...” — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about her, and… — Richard Yates Copy Share
“In the East, he then believed, a man went to college not for vocational training but in disciplined search for wisdom and beauty, and… — Richard Yates Copy Share
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us. — Richard Yates Copy Share
“And you know what else I used to love? I loved to watch you get into your car and drive away - just because… — Richard Yates Copy Share
if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want — Richard Yates Copy Share
“The movies were wonderful because they took you out of yourself, and at the same time they gave you a sense of being whole.… — Richard Yates Copy Share
Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love. — Richard Yates Copy Share
“It had been easy to decide in favor of love on Bethune Street, in favor of walking proud and naked on the grass rug… — Richard Yates Copy Share
“Sometimes in dreams there are visions of the past. For that reason Alice Prentice had always welcomed sleep, but she suffered an insomniac's dread… — Richard Yates Copy Share
“There she was, lying on a single bed in a room so small that there wasn't even space for a chair, and the first… — Richard Yates Copy Share
People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering... — Richard Yates Copy Share
Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman. — Richard Yates Copy Share
“You still felt that life was passing you by? Sort of. I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous… — Richard Yates Copy Share
