Slaves of New York Quotes

“I don't like him...he makes me feel like he's going to throw me in a coffin and walk around on top of it.”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

“I don’t know what my greatest fear is; maybe just that I’ll be caught and discovered, accused of being a child in an adult’s body.”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

“...and it made me uncomfortable the way this guy was eating a scrawny chicken wing and looking at me. You know, I just wanted to tell him to knock it off and be a person.”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

“Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

“Often, when she claimed to be cleaning the house, he would come upon her fondling a spoon, attempting—by using psychic energy—to bend it with mind power alone. She insisted this could be done. Yet even if possible, he said, he didn’t need or want their spoons bent.”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

“I have always had that skill of being able to escape my immediate surroundings by diving into a book;”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York