“There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody refuses good advice or bad advice, it didn't matter. It went up in a flash.” — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“He was mixing up friendship with acts and atmospheres from the deluded matrix the boys had lived in for a heartbeat in the seventies. She thought, I am your friend, you idiot, and I let you into my perfect body,… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“Nina said, “Have regular facial expressions.” That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves—the subtle bodies inside—were still there and functioning despite what age and accident… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“A utopia I would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman member of… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
