Mooch Quotes

“Dear God: Please help me to know what the fuck to do with my life and how to fix it.”
― Dan Fante, Mooch

“There is an immutable law that wherever cops congregate, more cops must join in.”
― Dan Fante, Mooch

“En la calle, de camino a la tienda, tuve una visión, un destello que iluminó mi entendimiento. Mi dificultad, mi verdadero problema, no eran ni mis depresiones, ni el alcoholismo, ni mis fracasos laborales; ni siquiera ese miedo secreto de ser un puto majara desquiciado. Mi problema eran las
personas, y me tenían rodeado.”
― Dan Fante, Mooch

“On the street, on my way to the store, I had an insight, a flash that penetrated my understanding. My real difficulty—my problem—wasn’t my depressions or my drinking or my job failures or even the unarticulated fear that I was a fucking insane whack. My problem was people. And they were located everywhere”
― Dan Fante, Mooch