Jonathan Carroll

Eating is sex for old people.

— Jonathan Carroll

Everything you want in life has teeth.

— Jonathan Carroll

I feel like a cliche.

— Jonathan Carroll

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

— Jonathan Carroll

Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.

— Jonathan Carroll

Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.

— Jonathan Carroll

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

— Jonathan Carroll

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

— Jonathan Carroll

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

— Jonathan Carroll

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

— Jonathan Carroll

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

— Jonathan Carroll

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

— Jonathan Carroll

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

— Jonathan Carroll

“Everything will haunt you, all the storms will find you, everything will remind you she’s gone.”

— Jonathan Carroll

I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

— Jonathan Carroll

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

— Jonathan Carroll

“The trouble with wars is that they all look alike to people who aren’t involved. Only the skin color of the dead…

— Jonathan Carroll

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see…

— Jonathan Carroll

Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away…

— Jonathan Carroll

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled…

— Jonathan Carroll

“Here's something you must know and don't forget it - animals never lie. They don't like, they don't put on disguises, and…

— Jonathan Carroll

“Listening to him, I realized how lucky I was not to have had a wonderful childhood. Those who do, or those who…

— Jonathan Carroll

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do…

— 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

If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten…

— Jonathan Carroll

Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives…

— Jonathan Carroll

“I had once thought strength of character was a hardening of oneself; an intricate protection system by which you reconciled yourself to…

— Jonathan Carroll

Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel…

— Jonathan Carroll

At the end of their relationship she asked if they could still remain friends. His face stayed expressionless until he said "No.…

— Jonathan Carroll

“Lions should be strong but sweet beasts in a Disney cartoon. But they aren't, so when they act like lions you're angry…

— 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

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

— 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

Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing…

— Jonathan Carroll

“One of the reasons why I liked living in Manhattan was that the city would share your mood the moment you walked…

— Jonathan Carroll

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

— Jonathan Carroll

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

— Jonathan Carroll

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

— Jonathan Carroll

I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.

— Jonathan Carroll

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

— Jonathan Carroll