The Moon in Its Flight Quotes

“It is no wonder lesbians love women.”
― Gilbert Sorrentino, The Moon in Its Flight

“Art cannot save anybody from anything.”
― Gilbert Sorrentino, The Moon in Its Flight

“The maimings of love are endlessly funny....”
― Gilbert Sorrentino, The Moon in Its Flight

“You are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he was so pale that he looked as if he had seen a ghost, but that is, indeed, what she said. Art cannot rescue anybody from anything.”
― Gilbert Sorrentino, The Moon in Its Flight

“He wiped her forehead and stroked her shoulders, worshiping her pain. He went to get a Coke and brought it back to her, but she only sipped at it, then said O God! and bent over to throw up. He held her hips while she vomited, loving the waste and odor of her. She lay down on the ground and he lay next to her, stroking her breasts until the nipples were erect under her cotton blouse. My period, she said. God, it just ruins me at the beginning. You bleeding, vomiting, incredible thing, he thought. You should have stayed in, he said. The moonlight of her teeth. I didn’t want to miss a night with you, she said. It’s August. Stars, my friend, great flashing stars fell on Alabama.”
― Gilbert Sorrentino, The Moon in Its Flight

“Was she happy? Really happy?”
― Gilbert Sorrentino, The Moon in Its Flight

“Popular songs, the lyrics half-remembered.”
― Gilbert Sorrentino, The Moon in Its Flight

“To master this overpowering wave of nostalgia he cheapened it. Certainly the reader will recall such shoddy incidents in his own life.”
― Gilbert Sorrentino, The Moon in Its Flight

“Creamy stars, pale nights.”
― Gilbert Sorrentino, The Moon in Its Flight