David Goodis

“It was very fast, that first time. They were on the couch, and then they were off the couch and it was…

— David Goodis

“You know me. Guys like me come a dime a dozen. No fire. No backbone. Dead weight waiting to be pulled around…

— David Goodis

“You've really earned it, he thought. You've played a losing game and actually enjoyed the idea of losing, almost like them freaks…

— David Goodis

“Her features were thin and her skin was pale and she was certainly not pretty. But it was an exciting face. It…

— David Goodis

“Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in…

— David Goodis

“He told himself she wasn’t really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced…

— David Goodis

“I lost my spinal column a good many years ago. There ain't no surgery can put it back. Even if there was,…

— David Goodis

The trouble with people is they don't understand people.

— David Goodis

“The police, he imagined, were now walking around the parked car. He imagined their bandit chaser was parked beside the car and…

— David Goodis

“Under the blanket the outline of her body was slender and displayed a certain innocence, a precious quality far more significant than…

— David Goodis

“A cat came out of an alley, took a look at all the snow, and went back in. Farther on up the…

— David Goodis

“He moved on down the alley, his feet walking forward and his brain swimming backward through a sea of time. It was…

— David Goodis