The Designated Mourner Quotes

“My dick lay limply inside my trousers, like a little lunch packed by Mother.”
― Wallace Shawn, The Designated Mourner

“You can sum me up in about ten words: a former student of English literature who—who—who went downhill from there! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!”
― Wallace Shawn, The Designated Mourner

“There was no feeling at all between Joan and me, so I talked about myself. I talked without stopping for two hours about myself, pulling little sounds of understanding out of poor Joan's mouth the way in prison we pulled plates of food from slots in the doors.”
― Wallace Shawn, The Designated Mourner