Warp Quotes

“The year I graduated from college was the year Richard Linklater released Slacker and Douglas Coupland published Generation X. A quarter-century later it's hard to recover a sense of how radical and powerful those works were at the time, but to me they felt authentically contemporary in a way that nothing else did.”
― Lev Grossman, Warp

“Why did you have to say that thing about Teri Garr?' said Peters. 'Here I am introducing you to a beautiful woman—' ¶ 'Oh, for God's sake,' said Hollis. 'She's an undergraduate—she must be eighteen years old.' ¶ 'So? You're only twenty-three,' said Peters. 'Love is ageless. Besides, you're probably the most undergraduate person I know. And I know a lot of undergraduates.' ¶ In the row of darkened storefronts there was one lighted window, a café where people were loading up on coffee and pastries after a night of drinking. ¶ 'How would you feel if somebody said you looked like Scott Bakula, or something? Or Bronson Pinchot? God, no wonder Eileen dumped you.' ¶ 'Teri Garr's pretty well-preserved,' Hollis said calmly. 'Anyway, I broke up with Eileen, not the other way around, if you want to know the truth.' ¶ 'That's what they all say,' said Peters.”
― Lev Grossman, Warp

“In the student revolt in Paris they ripped up the cobblestones out of the streets,' Peters said as he walked around it. 'I guess they threw them at people or something. Maybe they were for the barricades. Anyway, there was all this nice yellow beach sand under them, so people started saying 'Under the Pavement, the Beach.' It turned into a big slogan in the sixties.' ¶ 'Them crazy French.”
― Lev Grossman, Warp

“Oh, that was a droll little affair,' said Peters. 'Forget about it. You know what women are like? They're like those long, skinny blocks you get in Tetris, the ones made out of four blocks straight in a row. First when you need them you can't get any, then when you don't need them anymore they're fucking everywhere and you don't know what to do with them.”
― Lev Grossman, Warp

“What's wrong with lying?... A lie is a blow to the tyranny of fact.”
― Lev Grossman, Warp