T.C. Boyle > Quotes

“He thought of Christ with his cross and his crown of thorns and wondered who had it worse.”
― T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain

“But as he lay there watching the sparks climb into the sky, the wine infesting his veins, he knew how it was going to be, how it had to be, knew he would follow her into that hut and slap his own pain out of her, and that was so sick and so bad he wanted nothing more in that moment than to die.

But then dead men didn't work either, did they?”
― T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain

“At first, she was disappointed, but she was patient, infinitely patient, rooted to the ground by the boredom of the days.”
― T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain

“Look to society, and look to the crapshoot of the way any given set of parents’ genes line up. How was Raskolnikov created? How about the “patriots” who assaulted the Capitol Building? We live in our own private realities, and sometimes—too often—those private realities have nothing to do with the larger world around us. I speak from the point of view of a novelist, a profession to which only the delusional are called.”
― T.C. Boyle

“I’ve always been a huge fan of theater and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live music is just the same. They’re doing it for you right now. It’s an amazing thing. And if you perform a story properly, it can be transporting too.”
― T.C. Boyle