Stephen Adly Guirgis Quotes

#1. I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#2. I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#3. My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

Kat Dennings

#4. There's nothing like standing kissing-close to a beautiful stranger to make you really feel your loneliness.

Phoebe Rose

#5. Dear reader. Dear, dear reader. Here we find ourselves, you and me, engaged in a book in which someone has just exclaimed, in all seriousness, 'The sentient lobsters!'
How did we end up here? Did we make some mistake along the way?

M T Anderson

#6. God is fucking stealing souls again!

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#7. Atlanta is not the South.

Pimp C

#8. I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#9. I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#10. I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#11. One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#12. JACKIE. I swear to God: Being in love with Veronica - it's like feeding your love to Godzilla every morning, and every morning you go "Yo, 'Zilla, these shits are very delicate so please chew softly", - and every morning - the motherfucker just goes crunch!

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#13. Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.

Jack Whitehall

#14. September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#15. The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#16. When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#17. Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home any more. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home.

James Baldwin