Arthur Herbert > Quotes

“a wonderful scent welcomed me, a familiar, musty smell with notes of pipe smoke and oils from the thousands of hands that had held these books, turned those millions of pages. It was the smell of slow, elegant decomposition. It was heaven.”
― Arthur Herbert, Last I Saw Him: An Amoret Novel

“Coincidences are God's way of staying anonymous.”
― Arthur Herbert, The Bones of Amoret

“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Arthur Herbert, Last I Saw Him: An Amoret Novel

“Too often modern conversation degenerates into blather, noise for noise’s sake. I respect words the way surgeons respect their scalpels, fine instruments to be used with precision. Books have no expectations, content to sit idly by waiting for you to partake in what they have to say. People could stand to learn a lesson there.”
― Arthur Herbert, Last I Saw Him: An Amoret Novel

“Tampax while he was at the store, his stock answer was, “I’d rather staple a five pound bag of flour to my ballsack.”
― Arthur Herbert, Last I Saw Him: An Amoret Novel

“The simplest explanation is usually the right one,’ business.” “Occam’s razor,”
― Arthur Herbert, The Bones of Amoret