A.J. Smith

“To see Bburke chug a beer was to witness a small act of unmitigated perfection. One could hope to be able to…

— A.J. Smith

“They have an army. You, as far as I can tell, have trees...”

— A.J. Smith

“Bburke used to, whenever he went to the city to catch a Yankees game, throw his money around to every homeless man…

— A.J. Smith

“He blurred his thens and his nows—in a fantastic drunken distortion—with the thisness and thenness of now and before, re-spectively; wisps of…

— A.J. Smith

“I will look white again like a disease, you will see my whiteness and feel dis-ease, lovers alone wear sunlight, ee’s said.”

— A.J. Smith

“But love will only take you so far. The other 99% is not being a dickhead.”

— A.J. Smith

“As he began to understand himself more and more (to the extent at least that any man truly understands himself), he recognized…

— A.J. Smith

“Loving God alone, we unify our nature in single constancy; God himself kindles a love that burns but never consumes.”

— A.J. Smith

“Liquor can be the dogmaless version of flagellation in this way. It can be self-punitive and self-restorative. Liquor is how a man…

— A.J. Smith

“The priest and the altar. The priest and the altar.”

— A.J. Smith