11 quotes found
“I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.”
“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.”
“all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay”
“Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.”
“I wind up stretched across the couchstill nodding with Sherlock Holmesexamining our crushed veins”
“Poverty of young men alone behind thestairways, who practicealchemy inside bottle caps, who knowthe altruism of a last syringe.”
“It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in he...”
“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a...”
“On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to ones body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdo...”
“You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and ...”
“Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return...”
