“Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if ...” — Russell Smith Quote

“Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then you get to buy new ones.”

“In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.”

“Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.”

“I ran to the arts, because the arts are the one thing that would never abandon me.”

“I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.”

“The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.”