Carter & Lovecraft Quotes

“I trained as a librarian, and I run a bookstore. Fucking right I can use a gun. ... if I have to engage somebody between the counter and the door, only the political autobiographies are in danger and who gives a fuck about those?”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“I trained as a librarian, and I run a bookstore. Fucking right I can use a gun.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“he came into the store to threaten you with math and philosophy. The motherfucker’s going down.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“He couldn’t see how you could scare the shit out of somebody with math, but it seemed you could.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“Albert Einstein said that the only way to win at roulette is to steal from the table while the croupier isn’t looking.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“Every branch of science likes to think it’s important, and of course, they all are. But they’re specializations. Much of biology, for example, is biochemistry, which is a specialization of organic chemistry, which is a specialization of chemistry, which is a specialization of physics, and physics is practical mathematics. No matter which set of matryoshka dolls you open in science, the innermost is always math.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“dark heart of esoteric fuckery,”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“Lovecraft angled her head back until she was looking at Harrelson down her nose. "I trained as a librarian, and I run a bookstore. Fucking right I can use a gun.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“In Atlantic City, Bernie Hayesman looked at the plate of ribs, and he was not happy. He had asked for an omelet, a simple omelet to be sent up to his office, and they had sent ribs. He couldn't understand it. He'd spoken to the chef personally. They'd discussed eggs, if briefly. There was no earthly way "omelet" could have been misconstrued as "ribs". He looked at the plate of ribs, and the ribs looked back. Neither he nor they were overjoyed at the situation.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“There may be trouble. Anybody goes in there needs to know how to handle a gun. Do you?"

Lovecraft angled her head back until she was looking at Harrelson down her nose. "I trained as a librarian, and I run a bookstore. Fucking right I can use a gun.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“school sounds a bunch more two-fisted than I’d thought.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“I forget all about how good-looking she was at a distance because, close up? My balls pretty much sucked up into my body.” “I like your friend, Dan,” said Lovecraft. “He’s graphic.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“He still got a momentary spark of something stupid in its reflexiveness sometimes when he read a news story where some black kid had done some kind of stereotypically black thing that gave a certain strata of white folk a hard-on of righteousness, a spasm of old prejudices.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“Sometimes just talking to somebody about things could help him see them in a different way, even if they didn’t say a word. Just accessing that little part of the brain that wonders how somebody is interpreting what you say can be enough to give a new perspective.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“People talked like that then, that’s history. It’s people who talk like that now—no pass for them.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“It was where parallel lines met, and circles meekly allowed themselves to be squared.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“They were passing the “000” section, the outcasts of Dewey Decimal Classification”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“Looking like a suitable candidate for a David Byrne biopic set around the time of More Songs About Buildings and Food, Colt was not a popular man around campus.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“it was just likely to be human nature, the desire to do just enough and no more.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft