James

“Oh my God! You're wearing your bowling shoes! Only you would wear bowling shoes to your child's sickbed.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“Nice bedtime story, mate. Wish I'd heard more of 'em. Might've ended up a better man.”
― Darko Macan, Hellblazer: Ashes and Honey

“I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you had an old man's chest hair. It wasn't worth it.”
― Roddy Doyle, Bullfighting: Stories