Andrew-smith Quote by Andrew Smith

“I was thinking. What if the world was like one of those Russian nesting dolls? What if we only saw one surface of it,…

— Andrew Smith

“All good books are about everything, abbreviated.”

— Andrew Smith

“Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.”

— Andrew Smith

“Sometimes it is perfectly acceptable to decide not to decide, to remain confused and wide-eyed about the next thing that will pop up in…

— Andrew Smith

“People fear what they can not understand and what they can not control.”

— Andrew Smith

“Joey told me nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was, that things expand and contract – like breathing, but you could never…

— Andrew Smith

“You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks…

— Andrew Smith

“Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it…

— Andrew Smith

“I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on a dance…

— Andrew Smith

“Not a very pretty world, is it?" "Which one?”

— Andrew Smith

“Everyone on every road that crossed beneath the point of my pen was always going to do the same things over and over and…

— Andrew Smith

“Do you think I'm queer, Rob?" I asked. "I don't care if you're queer," Robby said. " Queer is just a word. Like orange.…

— Andrew Smith