Driving on the Rim Quotes

“But it was as if a tiny animal living in the corner of my mind, smaller than a mouse, smaller than an ant, and unobtrusive even considering its size, was saying, 'Bullshit.”
― Thomas McGuane, Driving on the Rim

“Napoleon said that if it weren't for religion the poor would kill the rich. This may be all you needed to know about any human community. The churches were the real police stations, the real keepers of law and order.”
― Thomas McGuane, Driving on the Rim

“I think he was just doing his best, getting along by going along with my mother, whose piety and evangelical fever had preoccupied her family since the last century. She knew no other world - God the Tyrant and supplicant humanity crawling on its belly to be forgiven for sins they never knew they'd committed. 'It's no sense defying the LORD,' she told me. 'He's got all the coons up one tree.”
― Thomas McGuane, Driving on the Rim

“Horses and farm equipment were dangerous and produced a fatalistic culture impervious to health warnings.”
― Thomas McGuane, Driving on the Rim: A novel