24 quotes found
“Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate?”
“We used to talk and smile seven days ago when I was wearing a suit. Now I'm dressed in a beard and smell of dog shit I dont even get eye contact. I ask her how her week is going, and she looks to h...”
“Homelessness is not the result of not having a house, it's lack of a soul in a body.”
“A litany of headlights blinding her, she stands unsteady on the dotted traffic line, takes timid steps toward rolled up windows behind which any horror could crouch....”
“I don't know. I got nothing. No house, no people, no place. Maybe that's troubles. Don't I say?”
“Something critical is missing in places that care for broken and needy people if the only people there are also broken and needy.”
“Without the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobody up early, sitting under a tree: a slight, but important difference in how ...”
“The homeless dudes on Alameda all have legs any runway model would kill for, and sometimes I think of giving them money, but I dont know, Ive got bills to not pay, and drinks to make people buy for...”
“My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.”
“Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like its not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best.”
“Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.”
“His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost.”
“He brings the cigarette butt to his mouth and lights up. He breathes in, and coughs; a rattling helicopter with a broken blade crashing into a herd of trombone playing sheep falling off a cliff int...”
“Office Peone looked at John and wondered what mental illness he had. The Seattle streets were filled with the mostly-crazy, half-crazy, nearly crazy, and soon-to-be crazy. Indian, white, Chicano, A...”
“Under the bridge, traffic above us and coats around us, hearts thudding with the steady perfection of this moment, I thought of every word I had never before dared to think about him.Future. Hope.A...”
“My main concern while in New York wasn't becoming a hot shot. I was more concerned with staying alive, and that took all the pleasure out of the experience. I didn't know where to find a grocery st...”
“We used to talk and smile seven days ago when I was wearing a suit. Now I'm dressed in a beard and smell of dog shit I don’t even get eye contact. I ask her how her week is going, and she looks to ...”
“Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it’s not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best.”
