I didn’t choose to be a hero…. If I had a choice I’d be a dog.
— Lily
Struggle on.
— Jason
“If one were to pick anyone up at random and study him intensely enough in all the ramifications of his life, we would get the whole story of man,” he wrote.
— Jill Lepore, Joe Gould’s Teeth
Gould wrote Davenport. “Their eminence was due, it seems to me, not as much to inherited ability as to inherited opportunity.”
— Jill Lepore, Joe Gould’s Teeth
I’m happy.
— Jack
Hi Paul.
— Woman unknown to Paul
Is that your account?
— Guy who saw me on the street
Undoing the work of God.
— Lily on taking one color out of the rainbow sprinkles
Everything bagel, egg, ham, cheese, plain.
— Lady from breakfast cart
What?… I just sit here sometimes.
— Jay
Dear Miss Sonnenblick:In response to your letter I regret to inform you that we have no information for distribution on the Loch Ness Monster.
— G. G. McVay, January 9, 1968, Department of Public Relations, The American Museum of Natural History
God loves it when we have a quiet and gentile spirit. Shabbat shalom.
— Sidewalk chalk guy after pinky hand shaking Lily
Would you like to curate a week on our feed?
— Instagram direct message
Winslow
— Van Doren dog
Cat litter books? Is that new?
— Darren Haggar
You’re a waste of ice cream.
— Lily to hecklers in a car
I’m going to open shampoo books and take you out of business.
— Lily
Here ya go, you can have em back. We didn’t read em anyhow.
— Lily giving books back to a tree
To get hydrated.
— Why LTC plays Thumper
Your legs are Orville and Wilbur Wright.
— Matt Gwin’s character suggestion for Lobster Club improv skit