Dr. No Quotes

“When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman."
"I would never step on a woman.”
― Percival Everett, Dr. No

“You sound like a physicist," she said.
"There's no need to be insulting.”
― Percival Everett, Dr. No

“Why are you still a priest?” Eigen asked, not letting the subject go.
“My dear girl,” Karras said. “I remain a goddamn cleric because in this world one needs something to hide behind. I have chosen this fucking collar. You have chosen mathematics.”
― Percival Everett, Dr. No

“It had a rear bumper sticker that read Legalize Recreational Plutonium.”
― Percival Everett, Dr. No

“It’s almost noon, Trig,” I said. “We’ve nearly run out of morning. A sad thought, morning being my favorite part of the day. My least favorite part of the day is from 2:34 to 4:56 in the afternoon.”
― Percival Everett, Dr. No

“Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-crust English spy, an openly promiscuous and functionally alcoholic heterosexual with an on-and-off-again messiah complex. It was the shoes, the way they were tied.”
― Percival Everett, Dr. No

“And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston."
"BIPDIP?"
"Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much.”
― Percival Everett, Dr. No

“Don't listen to me, for everything I say is either true or false.”
― Percival Everett, Dr. No

“You're not seeing happiness. You're seeing social awkwardness. A mild blindness to the normal range of social cues. You like me because I'm weird. And you like that because you think you're weird. And you are. In a good way. You know what a homotopy equivalence is, and you don't need to know that. No one needs to know that. Face it. That's weird!"

I drank my tea.

"I don't know what a homotopy equivalence is." Sam said.

"Neither do I. But you know what I mean.”
― Percival Everett, Dr. No

“He’s been told that nothing is better than meeting God and cold coffee is better than nothing.”
― Percival Everett, Dr. No

“I recall that I am extremely forgetful.

Nothing happened.”
― Percival Everett, Dr. No