Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day. — Sam Lipsyte Inspirational Copy Share Image
No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from… — Sam Lipsyte Emotion Copy Share Image
I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me. — Sam Lipsyte Bars Copy Share Image
This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them. — Sam Lipsyte Bus Copy Share Image
“I looked for Gary in all of the Gary places, but I was too early. These places were all haunted by the… — Sam Lipsyte Gary Copy Share Image
Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake. — Sam Lipsyte Cake Copy Share Image
“We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.” — Sam Lipsyte Ice cream Copy Share Image
“They weren’t like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.” — Sam Lipsyte Dolls Copy Share Image
You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own? — Sam Lipsyte Beads Copy Share Image
Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that… — Sam Lipsyte Alive Copy Share Image
“They sought each other, missed each other, at cocktail parties, in train terminals, at flower shops, their fin de siecle Nokias gaining… — Sam Lipsyte Fitness Copy Share Image
I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how… — Sam Lipsyte Lesson Copy Share Image
I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on… — Sam Lipsyte Energy Copy Share Image
“Van Wort was fat and his name was Van Wort. With that combination, why would you pack your kid off to camp?… — Sam Lipsyte Ladybugs Copy Share Image
“You think everyone will stay behind and do everything you did all over again, forever. You picture old geezers in jean jackets… — Sam Lipsyte Forever Copy Share Image
When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be… — Sam Lipsyte Activity Copy Share Image
Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and… — Sam Lipsyte Art Copy Share Image
“We’d been walking in endless rectangles and now we were near the candy store again. The lights were out, the security gate… — Sam Lipsyte Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always… — Sam Lipsyte Care Copy Share Image
“The Rough Beast snorted. “You don’t get it at all, buddy. It’s not about wrestling. It’s about stories. We’re storytellers.” Caperton studied… — Sam Lipsyte Allan poe Copy Share Image
“Oh, do you, Milo? You’re so selfish. You don’t see the bigger picture.” “What’s the bigger picture?” “You’re still here looking for… — Sam Lipsyte Bigger picture Copy Share Image
“I was also one of those people who hadn’t caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged to most of… — Sam Lipsyte Black death Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow she’d look up tattoo removal. They were doing big things with lasers now. When Cal was just a little more stable,… — Sam Lipsyte Big things Copy Share Image
“I needed to talk to Vargina, to straighten this out, but felt suddenly faint, headed for the deli across the street. Just… — Sam Lipsyte Comfort food Copy Share Image
One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy.… — Sam Lipsyte Bigs Copy Share Image
“Fuck,” said Bernie. “Fuckwinky eyeballhead.” “No, Bernie. We don’t use those words.” “Which words?” “You know which words.” “You used them, Daddy.”… — Sam Lipsyte Gaze Copy Share Image
“She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.” — Sam Lipsyte Quote Copy Share Image
The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends. — Sam Lipsyte Beginning Copy Share Image
“His eyes had the ebb of his liver in them and he bore the air of a man who looks right at… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know. — Sam Lipsyte Funny Copy Share Image
People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte Alive Copy Share Image
I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine. — Sam Lipsyte Cliffs Copy Share Image
“I wanted to have friends from all over the world in the way of a man who has no friends.” — Sam Lipsyte Friends Copy Share Image
“I was glad I'd remembered to shucksify my vocabulary in the company of children.” — Sam Lipsyte Business Copy Share Image
