Johnny Rich > Quotes

“To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Silent is an anagram of listen.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“You inherit your environment just as much as your genes.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“The future is certain. It is just not known.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he’s right?”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Nothing’s random. Even if it looks that way, it’s just because you don’t know the causes.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.”
― Johnny Rich

“So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“I stare out at the real world projected on the windows”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God’s existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“There is a distinction between a relationship which has a routine and a relationship which becomes routine”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Can we say, in this case, that the cause of a cause is the relevant cause?”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.”
― Johnny Rich

“Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Rejection is no badge of honour.”
― Johnny Rich

“That small difference made all the difference.”
― Johnny Rich