What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths. — Joe Meno Death Copy Share Image
Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well. — Joe Meno Life Copy Share Image
“I'm still trying to figure things out too. All I know is a couple of very unimportant things.” — joe meno Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I’m special. I want you to know that,” Odile says sharply. “I don’t think I’m better than everybody else.” — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave. — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“Maybe. Because he’s got to try. Because she is too interesting, too beautiful not to even do anything.” — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“Please let there be a heaven for everything that is too pitiful to believe.” — Joe Meno Heaven Copy Share Image
Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“Jack: Well, I've never been to New York, but I hear it's for assholes. Odile: It's not. Jack: Well, that's what I… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“Go to a goddamn priest if you wanna be lied to. I've seen too many of your kind slip back inside to… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap. — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“Maybe, he thinks, as he’s riding on through the snow, maybe this is why she’s leaving. Maybe she fell in love with… — Joe Meno Love Copy Share Image
Do not be confused by what the natural world knows: We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. But there is wonder… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“C. On that cloudless Saturday morning, Madeline wakes up and sees Jonathan lying beside her, then decides that she’s probably going to… — Joe Meno Saturday morning Copy Share Image
Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the… — Joe Meno Bizarre Copy Share Image
“I really do. It’s the first time I don’t have to think at work, you know. It’s really simple. You just answer… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“He wants to say: First of all, you were wrong about pop music. And art and all of pop culture. And all… — Joe Meno Art Copy Share Image
“We’re adults,” he says quickly. “I’m only here to work. I won’t bother you or anything.” “Fine,” she says. “Great.” “Great,” he… — Joe Meno Friend Copy Share Image
Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique… — Joe Meno Art Copy Share Image
“What Mr. Albee most desires is for the Model UN, the entire group of them, all eleven, even the scoundrel Quinn, to… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“...a book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating… — Joe Meno Book Copy Share Image
It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen… — Joe Meno Afterlife Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Effie Mumford was only trying to prove something she already knew: that, like all animals, she was at the whim of… — Joe Meno Heart Copy Share Image
“Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead--too… — Joe Meno Death Copy Share Image
“It will happen soon. Someday you will find yourself surrounded by people with the exact same interests as you, and you will… — Joe Meno College Copy Share Image
“This man has the same kind of charm, the kind that suggests weakness, the kind that indicates how sad he will always… — Joe Meno Charm Copy Share Image
“wondered about what he said and then thought hard. I could never be a dick, not to Gretchen anyway, so I guess… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels… — Joe Meno Book Copy Share Image
“As a boy, all I ever wanted was this: a life dedicated to art; every idea, every breath an artistic gesture. And… — Joe Meno Art Copy Share Image
“I figured Alan wasn’t really Alan anymore, that maybe the meds or the disease had made him someone else, someone more timid,… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“It is no parlor trick: There is a skull and, in the dark, it is glowing. Somehow it is now floating above… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? And so he stares for an hour or so at all her… — Joe Meno Art Copy Share Image
“...and realizes how there are all these moments, moments like just this one, there are all these moments, and how everyone lives… — Joe Meno Memories Copy Share Image
“Listen, I’m going to give you some advice, not because I think you need it, but because I feel like I’ve earned… — Joe Meno Advice Copy Share Image
The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“Kristin nods, marching ahead of Clark, who gazes as the impossible smallness of Kristin’s ankles and feet. Years later, while imprisoned for… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“You scan the cheering bleachers for the strange boy’s face: handsome, reserved, with the eye patch, a little dramatic, a little scary.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
