Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day. — Sam Lipsyte Inspirational 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 Copy Share Image
“I was glad I'd remembered to shucksify my vocabulary in the company of children.” — Sam Lipsyte Business 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
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends. — Sam Lipsyte Beginning Copy Share Image
“She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.” — Sam Lipsyte Heart 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 Copy Share Image
“Judging by your face, the what-the-fuck nodes in your cerebral cortex must be a real light show.” — Sam Lipsyte 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 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
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 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 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
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
Of All the Gin Joints is one part cinematic history, one part old Hollywood weirdness, and one part handy basic bar guide,… — Sam Lipsyte 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’re growing up. All you need to remember is that nothing changes. New technology, new markets, global interconnectivity, doesn’t matter. It’s still… — Sam Lipsyte 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 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
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 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
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
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
“So, yes, I should have just surrendered, cinched the entitled scion her little pouch of entitlements, put in my calls to the… — Sam Lipsyte 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
One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy.… — Sam Lipsyte 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
