Chris Crutcher

“Hey, cowboy, what's happening?”

— Chris Crutcher

“Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.”

— Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

— Chris Crutcher

“ I believe there is important shit to be dealt with. ”

— Chris Crutcher

Nothing exists without its opposite.

— Chris Crutcher

“The only truly ruined people are those who believe they are.”

— Chris Crutcher

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

— Chris Crutcher

Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.

— Chris Crutcher

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because…

— Chris Crutcher

And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.

— Chris Crutcher

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

— Chris Crutcher

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

— Chris Crutcher

“There isn't an entity in the universe that does not know about love.”

— Chris Crutcher

If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.

— Chris Crutcher

“He doesn't believe butt time on planet Earth doesn't neccessarily makes you wise.”

— Chris Crutcher

I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

— Chris Crutcher

No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably…

— Chris Crutcher

“You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you…

— Chris Crutcher

“Talking with Elaine like that, with no judgment from her or anything, seemed to bring my feelings more to the surface so…

— Chris Crutcher

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children…

— Chris Crutcher

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without…

— Chris Crutcher

If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look.…

— Chris Crutcher

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love…

— Chris Crutcher

Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short…

— Chris Crutcher

“See, Mr. Nak'll be talking about how anger comes creeping up, hoping you're not paying attention so it can trick you into…

— Chris Crutcher

So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is…

— Chris Crutcher

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days,…

— Chris Crutcher

Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love…

— Chris Crutcher

...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a…

— Chris Crutcher

“I know the answer to the question now, by the way: why bad things happen to good people and good things happen…

— Chris Crutcher

“The distances across that atom, in relative measure, are the same as the distances across the universe. So there is no big…

— Chris Crutcher

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't,…

— Chris Crutcher

“From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes looks just like…

— Chris Crutcher

“It's easy to look back and say if things had been perfect, I could have accommodated all of those things into my…

— Chris Crutcher

“I don't know why I always felt the need to educate my friends when I learned some new bit of information most…

— Chris Crutcher

“It's a scary thing, moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's…

— Chris Crutcher

“Leave me alone, you big fat shitburger!”

— Chris Crutcher

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

— Chris Crutcher

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

— Chris Crutcher

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

— Chris Crutcher