Quote

This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.

Jeff Lindsay

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
Fun
Brain
Back
Wanted

More quotes by Jeff Lindsay

Image
I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it. --Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
Image
Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?
Jeff Lindsay
Image
I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?
Jeff Lindsay
Image
In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
IN MY LIFELONG STUDY OF HUMAN BEINGS, I HAVE FOUND that no matter how hard they might try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workaday lives of meaningless toil and suffering.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
I sighed as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
She really did like me, the idiot.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book
Jeff Lindsay
Image
Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
Jeff Lindsay
Image
Feeling - what authentic human fun!
Jeff Lindsay
Image
As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.
Jeff Lindsay