C.D. Payne Quotes

• I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.

  C.D. Payne

  People, Temptation, Found

  C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.33, Broadway Books

  45 Copy quote

• Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.

  C.D. Payne

  Soul, Tolls, Confession

  7 Copy quote

• Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?

  C.D. Payne

  Race, Boredom, Humans

  C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.182, Broadway Books

  6 Copy quote

• Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.

  C.D. Payne

  Ears, Faces, Mutilation

  5 Copy quote

• One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other.

  C.D. Payne

  Children, Dad, Kids

  C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.14, Broadway Books

  4 Copy quote

• Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?

  C.D. Payne

  Morning, Giving, Optimism

  9 Copy quote

• I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?'Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he had already been married three years.'No wonder Gandhi turned out to be a great man. When you get your love life nailed down that early, think of all the time it frees up to devote to Great Ideas.

  C.D. Payne

  Love, Men, Thinking

  C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.177, Broadway Books

  4 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin