Evan Handler Quotes

#1. Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

Victor Hugo

#2. For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight.

Zack W. Van

#3. In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

Lewis Black

#4. God gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth to be used in that proportion

Anonymous

#5. I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#6. Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.

George R R Martin

#7. Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he's a damn good writer. It's Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as it is endearingly self-effacing. In what may be a literary first, the book actually left me wanting more.

Meghan Daum

#8. Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

Neil Simon

#9. Bush's life is that a fundamentally decent man presided over a moment when politics got meaner and rougher. '88 was the year of the handler, of bringing in political consultants who played very hard and very tough'.

Evan Thomas

#10. I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?

Harrison Ford

#11. Let's try the library,' I tell him. 'We can find out anything there!

David McPhail

#12. I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

Henry Bessemer

#13. William glanced at the captain. The way she sat suggested she was tense - and that she disliked the princess on sight. William wasn't sure why, but he knew that women tended to pick up on subtle points men missed. Or maybe she just felt dowdy when compared to the princess.

Christopher G. Nuttall

#14. I had no ability, but I was determined to show heart.

Evan Handler

#15. I'm in so many Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him.

Jill Ireland

#16. Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

Nick Cassavetes

#17. One of the greatest acts of courage is having to face every day of life feeling unloved.

Joseph Curiale

#18. He is looking down into the toilet bowl. He sees a bright shiny red ball, about the size of his fist, covered with blood and bobbing jauntily in the yellowed water. It throbs in time
with Ernest's pulse. It is his heart.

J. Mulrooney

#19. The inferiority of women is man-made.

Helen Keller

#20. In It's Only Temporary, Evan Handler confronts the ambiguities of life backward, forward, and in between. With hilarious honesty he reflects on the realization that we can start over again. It's Only Temporary is a heartfelt book for all of us who are getting younger and older at the same time.

Amy Tan