Jonathan Carroll

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

— Jonathan Carroll

The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."...So, what…

— Jonathan Carroll

Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and…

— Jonathan Carroll

When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ...…

— Jonathan Carroll

The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.

— Jonathan Carroll

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be…

— Jonathan Carroll

The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the…

— Jonathan Carroll

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

— Jonathan Carroll

Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so…

— Jonathan Carroll

Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things…

— Jonathan Carroll

Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.

— Jonathan Carroll

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

— Jonathan Carroll

“Animals are on earth to protect mankind. When you gather a bunch of them together like this, you create a safe haven.…

— Jonathan Carroll

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process…

— Jonathan Carroll

I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.

— Jonathan Carroll

The keys that unlock the heart are made of funny materials: a disarming phrase that comes out of the blue, nowhere, a…

— Jonathan Carroll

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then…

— Jonathan Carroll

“The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply what has taken you so long to learn.”

— Jonathan Carroll

How easily we ignore or forget the small kindnesses and considerations in life which are really the only everyday magic we witness…

— Jonathan Carroll

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over…

— Jonathan Carroll

The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

— Jonathan Carroll

Do you know the German phrase, 'You can steal horses with him'? It means a person you can both make love with…

— Jonathan Carroll

I had always liked blind dates. If nothing else, it was an interesting way of discovering what people thought of you.

— Jonathan Carroll

“Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not…

— Jonathan Carroll

Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're…

— Jonathan Carroll