Jonathan Carroll Quotes

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.

 

Women are always complaining about men’s fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

 

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

 

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.

Very often I’ll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

There’s almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.