“A bodyguard for a pretty socialite, I was moving up in the world. Like all idiots I naturally assumed she was pretty because she was rich. You can buy anything with money, even people, even... beauty.” — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“Bourbon, Kentucky bourbon especially, is like Dante’s Inferno in a glass, fire walks down your throat, lungs, and heart and everything in between with… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately for him he looked more like an innocent man on America’s terror watch-list rather than a gallant Viking possessing all the benefits of modernity. More like a villain in a Western fairy tale with his slicked-bouffant obsidian hair rather than the long sun-like curls that all great saviors of the poor have been obliged to possess. I squinted to… — Bruce Crown Copy Share
“What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful woman is… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“A costume party… great… a chance for the bimbos to whore themselves out with no penalty of conscience. I found myself excruciatingly curious as… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“We enter this universe alone in search of microscopic beauty—and while we love, or are loved by others—we leave this world completely alone, having only found infinite sorrow. Despite there being so many of us, each of us tragically realizes that everyone is on a solitary journey. No one else can see what we see, hear what we hear, feel,… — Bruce Crown Copy Share
“A happy clown inside spat out a pig-in-a-blanket and yelled at the cute waitress holding the tray. … I had to throw up but… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“He pulled back the sleeve of his jacket and glanced at his vintage watch tick away the seconds in a conventional way, even though… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“Angels should never be exposed to the dire darkness of despair in the tunnel of cosmic nothingness, and although I never believed such maddening… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“The car housed a hysterical bumper sticker: Save the Planet, and I permitted a moment of contemplation to truly bask in this thought. Save the planet? What a joke. Save the planet from what? From ourselves? And save it for what? For ourselves? It was a kind of perpetual stupidity in a tug-of-war battle over trivial matters. Only imbeciles see… — Bruce Crown Copy Share
“He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“Last call. It was about that time. He’d probably been drinking liquid courage all night, waiting for his chance to hit on her. I had little choice in assuming he was a three-time loser with a wad-of-cash to wave around and a bozo smile to boot. About to prate his many accomplishments as a man of the world and his… — Bruce Crown Copy Share
