Thomas McGuane Quotes

After fifty years of living it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

Thomas McGuane

It's funny but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune and you never know when it will befall you.

Thomas McGuane

It's funny but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune and you never know when it will befall you.

Thomas McGuane

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

Thomas McGuane

They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics. Szabo often wished that he could be as well adjusted as Melinda's family, but he would have had to be medicated to pursue her list of pleasures.

Thomas McGuane

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

Thomas McGuane

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

Thomas McGuane

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Thomas McGuane