“We are all refugees, and we have the scar to prove it.” — Donald O'Donovan Homelessness Copy Share Image
“Cops need criminals, doctors need disease, and saints need lepers.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“I found myself thinking about Jacqueline, my second or third wife.” — Donald O'Donovan Homeless Copy Share Image
“Dear God, please make me believe that life has some sort of meaning and purpose.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“I’m living the life of an urban hunter-gatherer—again.” — Donald O'Donovan Homelessness Copy Share Image
“I’m nothing more than a talking urinal cake. The world is pissing on me.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“Meditation doesn’t lead to enlightenment because in meditation the ego is trying to destroy the ego.” — Donald O'Donovan Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Your lifelong rebellion against all forms of authority stems from the infant’s desire to murder the father and possess the mother.” — Donald O'Donovan Father Copy Share Image
“Birth, copulation, death. You come out of one hole and you end up in another one. It’s a pretty short trip.” — Donald O'Donovan Birth Copy Share Image
“Like the dung beetle, I had my comfortable burrow and my ball of sustenance, and like the dung beetle I was happy.” — Donald O'Donovan Homelessness Copy Share Image
“I love LA! The freeways, the cars, the smog, the glitter, the glitz, the sleaze, the prostitutes, the poison that falls from… — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe’s Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol… — Donald O'Donovan Happiness Copy Share Image
“Now we’re riding a runaway train that’s carrying us all away to that final night where nothing is remembered and nothing matters.” — Donald O'Donovan Fitness Copy Share Image
“You came out kicking and screaming, reluctant as hell to leave, and you spent the rest of your life trying to get… — Donald O'Donovan Homelessness Copy Share Image
“The neon dust falls slowly, filtering through the stone canyons, settling on hats and fire hydrants, collecting on delicatessen awnings, filling the… — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“My grandfather was a railroad brakeman, sixty years with the D&H. I'd sit on his lap when I was little, I remember,… — Donald O'Donovan Grandfather Copy Share Image
“They needed someone to hate, a tangible focus for their remorse and disappointment, and I’d been elected, the projection of their own… — Donald O'Donovan Hate Copy Share Image
“Nowhere do you see a real, integrated, full-blooded man or woman who shines like a beacon in this sea of disjointedness.” — Donald O'Donovan Homelessness Copy Share Image
“Compassion goes out looking for suffering, scouring the earth for poverty and misery and pain, the same way the cops look for… — Donald O'Donovan Compassion Copy Share Image
“It’s been my experience in life that if you step back and simply allow events to take their course, things will usually… — Donald O'Donovan Homelessness Copy Share Image
“I’m back at Lafayette Park after a trip to the Bodhi Tree Bookstore, not to look at the books but to rub… — Donald O'Donovan Bookworms Copy Share Image
“Los Angeles, this anthill, this slag heap, the city where I suffered and grappled with life and was defeated, and where I… — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
