The best Quotes from Post Office

This is presented as a work of fiction and dedicated to nobody.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

"Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around."

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

'That's the problem with drinking', I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Education also seemed to be a trap. The little education I had allowed myself had made me more suspicious. What were doctors, lawyers, and scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals.

It's necassary for me sometimes just to be alone and quiet and doing nothing.

The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.

Reading is a hobby, but for some of us, it's an escape from the difficulties we face. To all of you who escape into books, I want to thank you for escaping into this one.

To Michelle - my love and life's partner and Malia and Sasha - whose dazzling light makes everything brighter.

To my husband, David Yoon, who showed me my heart.
And to my smart, beautiful daughter Penny, who made it bigger.

To the First Mother who Brings up a Happy Child.

To Mom,
Who took me to the library.

To caffeine and sugar, my companions through many a long night of writing.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.

'Baby,' I said, 'I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.'

She was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.