Jean Shepherd Quotations

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.

Manhattan cabs are born old.

The truth will always have a market.