I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
