Tom Perrotta

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.

— Tom Perrotta

“As far as I could tell, he earned his hundred thousand a year by wandering the hallway with a Styrofoam cup of…

— Tom Perrotta

“thinking how good it was to be free, away from the baby and from Tom, too, the two people who couldn’t help…

— Tom Perrotta

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

— Tom Perrotta

“She took care of evyone with the same no-nonsense air of friendliness and good cheer that made her seem so paradoxically wholesome,…

— Tom Perrotta

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

— Tom Perrotta

“Stan and Rudy are grown men. It's too late to shape their minds, to teach them values and a sense of compassion.…

— Tom Perrotta

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things…

— Tom Perrotta

You could say that this book is ripped from the headlines, but that wouldn't be fair. Bret Anthony Johnston's riveting novel picks…

— Tom Perrotta

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something…

— Tom Perrotta

“Something had happened to him ove the past couple of years, something to do with being home with Aaron, sinking into the…

— Tom Perrotta

“They were good listeners, worldly yet easily shocked, hungry for details, curious and nonjudgmental at the same time, always happy to give…

— Tom Perrotta

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story…

— Tom Perrotta

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

— Tom Perrotta

“us, Will had invited his camp counselor buddy, Dylan, and Dylan had brought along his roommate, this annoying kid named Sanjay. I…

— Tom Perrotta

“We all basically live in a world that we define by the people who have disappeared.”

— Tom Perrotta

I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to…

— Tom Perrotta

“ever since the development of the spine, the individual had become paramount, the group disregarded. Ghiselle was only following the downhill path…

— Tom Perrotta

“It’s a matter of dignity,” the Chief explained. “At a certain point, that’s all you have left.”

— Tom Perrotta

“The G.R. wasn’t big on spelling out its creed; it had no priests or ministers, no scripture, and no formal system of…

— Tom Perrotta

They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden…

— Tom Perrotta

“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever…

— Tom Perrotta

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

— Tom Perrotta

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.

— Tom Perrotta

“It’s like the Stone Age over there, just sand and rubble and IEDs.”

— Tom Perrotta