Roy Blount Jr.

When mannequins have nipples, it's a cold-hearted world.
― Roy Blount Jr.

When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. Put The Idiot in your lap or over your face, and you know where you are going to be for the afternoon.
― Roy Blount Jr., Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.' -- Roy Blount Jr.
― Roy Blount Jr.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
― Roy Blount Jr., Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion