Richard Condon Quotes & Sayings

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck. — Richard Condon

Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson. — Richard Condon

What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment. — Richard Condon

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely. — Richard Condon

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth. — Richard Condon

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now. — Richard Condon

Raymond stood as though someone might have just opened a beach umbrella in his bowels. — Richard Condon

When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who were always perfect as doctors or lawyers or laborers, and the directors just picked the types they needed and stuffed them into film after film. I do the same [with
my characters], book after book. — Richard Condon

In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm. — Richard Condon

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do. — Richard Condon

Cheese. The adult form of milk. — Richard Condon

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile. — Richard Condon

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins. — Richard Condon