All Denis Johnson Quotes
- Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them. Ability
- We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves. Always Tell
- Everybody’s got a mean side. Just don’t feed it till it grows. Don T
- All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant pastels of the… All
- It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself… Alone
- With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. Broke
- We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that Chests
- There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place Allowed
- The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been… Along
- What could be lonelier than trying to communicate? Communicate
- I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it… Came
- In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just… Accuracy
- When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. American