Steve Tesich > Quotes

“Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.”
― Steve Tesich

“Every year it's gonna to be a new one, and every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna me Mike. Twenty-year old Mike. Thirty-year old Mike. Old mean old man Mike.”
― Steve Tesich, Breaking Away

“Everybody cheats. I just didn't know.”
― Steve Tesich

“He's never tired. He's never miserable. When I was young, I was tired and miserable.”
― Steve Tesich

“The closest I had ever come to seeing human nakedness before was in a movie. A documentary. It showed hundreds and hundreds of naked Jews, men, women, and children, being escorted by armed Nazi guards and barking German shepherds to their deaths. All the Jews were naked. Not undressed. Naked. And it seemed to me then, while I watched that documentary, that it wasn’t just the Jews that the Nazis wanted annihilated but the very concept of nakedness as well.”
― Steve Tesich, Karoo

“There only remained the problem of the terrible ache in his lower back. Holding on with both hands to the top of the door frame, he bent his knees to an almost full squatting position, trying to stretch the pain away. Hanging from the car door frame seemed to have no effect on his back pain, but it did cause a sudden and completely unexpected loosening of his bowels. Before he could tighten his sphincter muscle,”
― Steve Tesich, Karoo

“He was neither asleep nor awake, neither this nor that. It was some new state that he was in, some new kind of nonexistence.”
― Steve Tesich, Karoo