“When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd only wasted a few years.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“Gladys had seen all of this, and she made it his to know. She'd lost her future to death, and lost her… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“It was all right to be who he was, but others would probably think it was terrible. A couple of times in… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“All of this while I left lifted by a strange new medium, a strange element--I now tell you that I was newly… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin'… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“This moment, this very experience of it, seemed only the thinnest gauze. She sat in the audience thinking - someone here has… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“You’ve never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share
“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose… — Denis Johnson Copy Share
“Everything is arranged," John Robertson told me. Thank God." I forgot to mention that we appear to have one small problem," he said. Okay..."… — Denis Johnson Copy Share
Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what… — Denis Johnson Copy Share
He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's… — Denis Johnson Copy Share
I’d been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I’d even known, for three days under a phony… — Denis Johnson Copy Share
“All of this while I left lifted by a strange new medium, a strange element--I now tell you that I was newly buoyant in… — Denis Johnson Copy Share
“He didn’t know what country he was in, but he was at home in the universe.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share
“There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share
“Who said it? – probably Confucius – “I can’t beat a sculpture from a stone with a sledgehammer; I can’t free the soul of… — Denis Johnson Copy Share
“A bus came. I climbed aboard and sat on the plastic seat while the things of our city turned in the windows like the… — Denis Johnson Copy Share
“To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share
“eventually these encounters forced him to acknowledge the reality of fate, and the truth inherent in things of the imagination.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share
