Eric D. Goodman > Quotes

“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and disposition of man. I find the result humiliating to me. — Mark Twain, Letters From Earth”
― Eric D. Goodman, Setting the Family Free

“Walking on a train isn’t free and open, like walking on a sidewalk or in a building. Nor is it stiff and uncomfortable, like walking on an airplane. There’s a steady, rhythmic comfort to strolling leisurely down the aisle, balancing hands on the heads of seats as you go. Christi’s direction was clear, but her destination was not. She was in no hurry to get there, wherever “there” was.”
― Eric D. Goodman, Tracks: A Novel in Stories

“I write for a living, and live for writing.”
― Eric D. Goodman

“The ride to Baltimore had been one that Joan wished would go faster and take longer at the same time, like a commute to a business meeting she wanted to both avoid and be done with.”
― Eric D. Goodman, Tracks: A Novel in Stories

“think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long. — Walt Whitman, Leaves”
― Eric D. Goodman, Setting the Family Free

“But the look Charles Manson had given him one night, when he’d slammed the cell door shut, would stick in his mind always. It was the stare of a crazed lunatic, someone unpredictable, who you wouldn’t want to trust whether encountered in a dark alley or open field.”
― Eric D. Goodman, Setting the Family Free

“Walking on a train isn’t free and open, like walking on a sidewalk or in a building. Nor is it stiff and uncomfortable, like walking on an airplane. There’s a steady, rhythmic comfort to strolling leisurely down the aisle, balancing hands on the heads of seats as you go. Christi’s direction was clear, but her destination was not. She was in no hurry to get there, wherever “there” was."

—Eric D. Goodman, “Futures,”
from TRACKS: A NOVEL IN STORIES”
― Eric D. Goodman, Tracks: A Novel in Stories