John Fante Quotes

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

Arturo Bandini was pretty sure that he wouldn't go to hell when he died. The way to hell was the com...

She had no need in her heart for either book or magazine. She had her own way of escape, her own pas...

I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigare...

I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of realit...

(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, th...

She made me a stranger unto myself, she was all of those calm nights and tall eucalyptus trees, the ...

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-t...

Come on! Who wants to fight me?

I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I fel...

I went to the library. I looked at the magazines, at the pictures in them. One day I went to the boo...

I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.