Amanda Thompson

“On Yard Work
"What are you doing with that rake?... No, that is not raking.... What? Different styles of raking? No there is one style, and then there's bullshit. Guess which one you're doing.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

“Because art, for all its adventuresomeness, is also capable of being the most recidivist of human activities, forever falling back in reaction to what was itself a reaction to something else.”
― Howard Jacobson

“On Chivalry “Give your mother the front seat…. I don’t give a shit if she said you could have it, that’s what she’s supposed to do, and you’re supposed to say, ‘No, I insist.’ You think I’m gonna drive around with my wife in the backseat and a nine-year-old in the front? You’re a crazy son of a bitch.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

“If that made him heavy company sometimes, so be it. Who decreed that life was to be one long rowdy masquerade (punctuated with those little pets of melancholy indulged by a crowd who made a religion of their feelings)?”
― Howard Jacobson, Shylock Is My Name