E.L. Doctorow

“Under the charge against us the normal rules of evidence are suspended. For us they don't exist.WE are charged not with committing…

— E.L. Doctorow

“Therefore the radical wastes his opportunity if he seriously considers the issues of his trial. If he is found guilty it is…

— e.l. doctorow

“Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes…

— E.L. Doctorow

“A stydy today of the products of the animated cartoon industry of the twenties, thirties and forties would yield the following theology:…

— E.L. Doctorow

“And to top everything he's got this problem he can't let her know how he feels: What-he's shy? Shy! Tell me who…

— E.L. Doctorow

“The ultimate technological achievement will be escaping from the mess we've made. There will be none after that because we will reproduce…

— E.L. Doctorow

“One evening he appeared with an infant in his arms at the door of his ex-wife, Martha. Because Briony, his lovely young…

— E.L. Doctorow

“The bad news is that if we do in fact get off the earth we will contaminate the rest of the universe…

— E.L. Doctorow

“-Of course movies today no longer require film. They are recorded and held in digital suspension as ones and zeroes. And so…

— E.L. Doctorow

“A message of consolation to Greek brothers in their prison camps, and to my Haitian brothers and Nicaraguan brothers and Dominican brothers…

— E.L. Doctorow

“I’ve had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”

— E.L. Doctorow

“Ever since this day I have dreamt sometimes... I, a street rat in my soul, dream even now... that if it were…

— E.L. Doctorow

“I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicative wonders of mudholes…

— E.L. Doctorow

“The story was clearly over, as in juggling when the ball you throw up finds the moment to come down, hesitates as…

— E.L. Doctorow

“Daniel: What do you think of the idea? Sternlight: I’ll tell you man, I think it’s a fantastic idea. Fuck me if…

— E.L. Doctorow

“IS IT SO TERRIBLE NOT TO KEEP THE MATTER IN MY HEART, TO GET THE MATTER OUT OF MY HEART, TO EMPTY…

— E.L. Doctorow

“Jacqueline, for how many days have I been without food. There was a crash, the whole house shook. Where is Langley? Where…

— E.L. Doctorow

“To Morgan, the disfigurement of his monstrous nose was the touch of God upon him, the assurance of mortality. It was the…

— E.L. Doctorow

“But now I speculate re the ants' invisible organ of aggregate thought... if, in a city park of broad reaches, winding paths,…

— E.L. Doctorow

“And so each of the passersby on this corner, every scruffy, oversize, undersize, weird, fat, or bony or limping or muttering or…

— E.L. Doctorow

“He wondered seriously if love wasn't a feeling at all but a simple characterless state of shared isolation. If you were alone…

— E.L. Doctorow

“His life was absurd. He went all over the world accepting all kinds of bondage and escaping. He was roped to a…

— E.L. Doctorow

“...if justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates…

— E.L. Doctorow

“So what I realized when I was a child was that if I were traveling as fast as light while holding a…

— E.L. Doctorow

“You want God? Don't look at Scripture, look everywhere, at the planets, the constellations, the universe. Look at a bug, a flea.…

— E.L. Doctorow