If the River Was Whiskey Quotes

“At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.”
― T.C. Boyle, If the River Was Whiskey

“Besides, to like something, to really like it and come out and say so, is taking a terrible risk. I mean, what if I'm wrong? What if it's really no good?”
― T.C. Boyle, If the River Was Whiskey

“He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.”
― T.C. Boyle, If the River Was Whiskey

“These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up to confront him with all its essential sloppiness, irrationality, and bad business sense.”
― T.C. Boyle, If the River Was Whiskey

“He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe out here in the suburbs? The world was violent, rotten, corrupt, seething with hatred and perversion, and there was no escaping it. Everything you worked for, everything you loved, had to be locked up as if you were in a castle under siege.”
― T.C. Boyle, If the River Was Whiskey

“I was not okay for one thing.For another, I'd passed from simple misanthropy to nihilism, death of the spirit and beyond.”
― T.C. Boyle, If the River Was Whiskey

“He wanted to talk about her-he was full of her-but he was telling a fine line here.He and Terry were men of the world and men of the world didn't moon over their woman.”
― T.C. Boyle, If the River Was Whiskey