Off Main Street Quotes

“Cynicism is overrated, and far too easy. In small doses, cynicism--like irony--provides an essential tempering quality. But to wallow in it, and to dismiss things like hope and faith, is cowardly and unoriginal.”
― Michael Perry, Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets Gatemouth's Gator: Essays

“Like a thickening woman, one halter top strap off the shoulder, like a man adjusting his thin hair while his sports car idles, there is evidence that summer is going to seed, leaving you to nurse regret through the fall, the season of penitence.”
― Michael Perry, Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets & Gatemouth's Gator: Essays – A Humorous and Poetic Journey Through Small-Town America