Ham Quotes

“Word was that God could heal anyone. The wounded, the infirm, even lepers. I figured I should be a breeze.”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories

“I fear that my lesson in this lifetime is humility... and I think that lesson is beneath me.”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories

“You’re not from around here, are you?” asked the room service girl.
“No,” I replied. “That’s why I’m staying at a hotel . . .”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories

“What could be better than Sun-In, a spray-on hair lightening product that could give me a natural, summer-streaked appearance, and at under three dollars!?”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories

“Jerry was a massive, lumbering, redheaded, freckled bully whose head was vastly disproportionately larger than the rest of his body. Like one of those effigies people burn at political rallies.”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories

“The sum of the past days fell upon me and the soft rumble of the engine invited sleep, but I willed myself to stay awake. It wasn’t every day I was on Oprah’s private jet.”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories

“Keeping my weight in constant check had resulted in choosing alcohol as my primary means of caloric intake.”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories

“My four-year-old son and I have little in common. Cooper loves cars, jets, monster trucks, and motorcycles. All the time. I hate cars, jets, monster trucks, and motorcycles. All the time.”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories

“The closest thing in my life to a mistake of that magnitude was the marriage of my dear friend Liza to the Man Whose Name Shall Go Unmentioned.”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories

“I was 15 years old and singing “I Miss the Hungry Years.” And I was a little fat.”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories

“His broomish mustache hung over most of his mouth and was always littered with remnants of his last meal. Not crumbs. Enough to qualify as leftovers.”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories

“I wanted to be famous. So famous that I would be vehemently hated by all the people I admired most.”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories

“I was the muddled concoction of my father’s contradictions. The same man who warned me that “life is a bowl-a shit” was the channel to my bliss. The infection and the cure. He was, at once, the drought that left me parched and gasping, and the rain that nurtured the single blade of grass, pushing itself up from between the jagged cracks in the sidewalk, and into the sun.”
― Sam Harris, Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories