Top 92 Quotes by Geoff Dyer

Once you've got through immigration, one is always made to feel very welcome in America, once they've let you in. It's a great place to be.

I like things that are funny and have a lot else in them besides that - ideas, for example.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.

My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.

Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; 'The Grapes of Wrath' has turned into 'Nickel and Dimed.'

Stories don't interest me.

It really doesn't matter if it happened exactly how I say it happened.