Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce
Lorrie MoorePleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat.
Lorrie MooreLove is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.
Lorrie MooreWriting is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life. It is the thing that, like love, removes one both painfully and deliciously from the ordinary shape of existence. It joins another queasy paradox: that life is an amazing, hilarious, blessed gift and that it is also intolerable.
Lorrie Moore