“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
“Judging by your face, the what-the-fuck nodes in your cerebral cortex must be a real light show.” — Sam Lipsyte Quotes Copy Share Image
“You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined… — Sam Lipsyte Quote Copy Share Image
Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing… — Sam Lipsyte Facts Copy Share Image
When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book… — Sam Lipsyte Book Copy Share Image
You could touch for a couple of bucks. The window of the booth went up and you stuck out the bills. They… — Sam Lipsyte Bills Copy Share Image
“Lee was my father’s lawyer, a mensch. But he’s been very sick. Cancer. Pancreatic.” “That’s one of the worst. A killer.” “Yes,… — Sam Lipsyte Parenting Copy Share Image
Of All the Gin Joints is one part cinematic history, one part old Hollywood weirdness, and one part handy basic bar guide,… — Sam Lipsyte Bars Copy Share Image
“It's hard to fuck your girlfriend when she's fucked up and you're not. It's harder than the skee-ball they used to have… — Sam Lipsyte Drugs-and-sex Copy Share Image
Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful… — Sam Lipsyte Bears Copy Share Image
“We are both from the same kind of towns. We both know the sound of swivel-head spray at midnight on a summer… — Sam Lipsyte Know Weak Copy Share Image
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is… — Sam Lipsyte Book Copy Share Image
“Who exactly are we?' I asked. The American Dreamers. There aren't too many of us left.' I don't know if I qualify.'… — Sam Lipsyte American dream Copy Share Image
“So, yes, I should have just surrendered, cinched the entitled scion her little pouch of entitlements, put in my calls to the… — Sam Lipsyte Cunt Copy Share Image
The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless… — Sam Lipsyte Art Copy Share Image
The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your… — Sam Lipsyte Language Copy Share Image
I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I… — Sam Lipsyte Age Copy Share Image
“Yes,” said Cooley. “That is the question, as the Bard might say.” “The Bard?” “What’s so funny?” said Cooley. “Nothing, sir,” I… — Sam Lipsyte Quote Copy Share Image
“You said you were having a dream.” “It’s true, I did.” “Was it the one where you’re inside the girl and you… — Sam Lipsyte Dreams Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. — Sam Lipsyte Controlled Copy Share Image