“Fuck hope and all the tiny little towns, one-horse towns, the one-stoplight towns, three-bars country-music jukebox-magic parquet-towns, pressure-cooker pot-roast frozen-peas bad-coffee married-heterosexual towns, crying-kids-in-the-Oldsmobile-beat-your-kid-in the-Thriftway-aisles towns, one-bank one-service-station Greyhound-Bus-stop-at-the-Pepsi-Cafe towns, two-television towns, Miracle Mile towns, Viv's Double Wide Beauty Salon… — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
“Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.” — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
“Some people like to bitch, Rose said. Bitching is OK. But for me, I choose a kind of joy -- a lucid compulsion --… — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
“So put your costume on, honey! Ruby said. Set Harlequin free! That party monster of yours is screaming to come out. Let the monster… — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
“The Shy Hunter is terrified that others will destroy the truth within his heart, Rose said, And so the Shy Hunter armours himself ... thus armoured, he watches and waits and studies the world meticulously, hunting the world for prey ... Prey not in the sense of devouring or murder, Rose said, But prey in the sense of hunting for… — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share
“At our table in the corner by the window, huddled around a flame in a red glass, all of us, body to body to… — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
“A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no… — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
“You know, Rose said, You're not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You're not the first… — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
