The Human Script Quotes

“To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Silent is an anagram of listen.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“You inherit your environment just as much as your genes.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“The future is certain. It is just not known.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Nothing’s random. Even if it looks that way, it’s just because you don’t know the causes.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he’s right?”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“I stare out at the real world projected on the windows”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Can we say, in this case, that the cause of a cause is the relevant cause?”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“There is a distinction between a relationship which has a routine and a relationship which becomes routine”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God’s existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script