More Quotes by John Fante
For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.
You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.
Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?
Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.
Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!
Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.
Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.
If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too
Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.
So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn’t matter why or when or how.
