“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges.… — 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
“From a Berkeley Notebook' ~Denis Johnson One changes so much from moment to moment that when one hugs oneself against the chill… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“It felt like the moment before the Savior comes. And the Savior did come, but we had to wait a long time.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“The first time I didn’t say anything, because she shot me in the mouth.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a war...and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“Now Van Ness claimed already to have died, more than once, in various other universes. Who can refute that? Is there any… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“Or maybe that wasn't the time it snowed. Maybe it was the time we slept in the truck and I rolled over… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“It was one of the moments you stay in, to hell with all the troubles of before and after. The sky is… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“You bury a friend—that gives you an enemy. It calls you more deeply into the cause. Then the time comes when you… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“He didn’t know what country he was in, but he was at home in the universe.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
