Andrew Johnson

“mostly I just threw the insurance forms in the garbage and slept in the bathroom. Always in the handicapped stall. It was clean, spacious, and down at the end of the row against the wall so you couldn’t have guys shitting against you on two fronts. Like my grandmother said, “In the bedroom and the bathroom, never get outflanked.” I was six years old. God she was a pig.”
― Paul Neilan, Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Look for the helpers. It was a goddamned Mr. Rogers quote, told to a child to comfort them during times of upheaval. But damn if it wasn’t true.”
― Matt Dinniman, A Parade of Horribles

“was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal. Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance.”
― John Williams, Stoner