Jean Shepherd Quotes

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

The truth will always have a market.

Semicolon, you dolt!

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.

Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving.

A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

Manhattan cabs are born old.