Richard Stern > Quotes

“I feel about her the way Galileo did about the telescope. My feelings for her enlarge my feelings for other things.”
― Richard Stern, Other Men's Daughters

“Catch-22 has much passion, comic and fervent, but it gasps for want of craft and sensibility… Its author, Joseph Heller, is like a brilliant painter who decides to throw all the ideas in his sketchbooks onto one canvas, relying on their charm and shock to compensate for the lack of design… The book is an emotional hodgepodge; no mood is sustained long enough to register for more than a chapter.”
― Richard G. Stern

“The nausea of authority, the old claw, the male threat in the male throat, affection quantified to death.”
― Richard Stern, Other Men's Daughters

“The night noise of the house was precious now, the stirrings below, the children’s breath which collected in the halls and made the atmosphere of his home. He was there, if something happened, fire, burglary, sickness, he was there to help. His own breath met his children’s.”
― Richard G. Stern, Other Men's Daughters

“These days, it was as if there were ten thousand slivers of glass between them. Instead of air, glass. The glass was pain. That is, if they moved, if they said anything to each other, the glass moved, and it was painful. Impossible; but not impossible, for there he was; and every day put more glass in the space between them.”
― Richard Stern, Other Men's Daughters

“Don't spread that jam on this stale bread, Cynthia.”
― Richard Stern, Other Men's Daughters