Quote by Ben Fountain

“He tried not to think, not to understand: could there be any understanding of this? This had come, had crushed, and was roaring. If…

— Andrei Bely

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so…

— Joseph Heller

“He must have felt a disturbance just beyond the boundless world his eyes perceived. Maybe like dogs we know when we are being hunted.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“There wasn't any food or heat, but we had light, and places to sit, and a complete lack of frightening murderers, and that turned…

— Karen Healey

“What I remembered about the man then was how helpless he'd seemed, and how you could tell that helplessness had made him cruel.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

“They were all looking at him with an unpronounceable hunger. Actually it was a lot like the faces you see in porn, but with…

— Amelia Beamer

“had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the…

— Douglas Adams

“He just stared blankly at the carnage and cried. A weak man. A man who couldn’t stand up for what he believed in because…

— Julian Lorr

“And nothing had happened—yet. Nothing had to happen either. It was just a dinner. He’d had many meals with other men in his thirty-four…

— Lynda Aicher

“He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts,…

— Gregory Maguire

“Something was on him and he couldn't shake it. He couldn't even see it. It was a new weapon of some sort and his…

— Brett Arquette