jim carroll

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

— Jim Carroll

It's always been the same, growing up in Manhattan... the idea of living within a giant archer's target... for use by the…

— Jim Carroll

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

— Jim Carroll

Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.

— Jim Carroll

Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in…

— Jim Carroll

You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show

— Jim Carroll

“Is there such a thing as public good? That's all I'm asking. I mean, is your good the same as my good?…

— Jim Carroll

“Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.”

— Jim Carroll

“That, I realized, is the great beauty of dreams: the devil may inevitably find a way to jerk you off, but you…

— Jim Carroll

“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless…

— Jim Carroll

“He was about to find out that when you open a door with a psychiatrist’s name on it, you’d better be prepared…

— Jim Carroll

“I sleep on a tar roof scream my songs into lazy floods of stars… a white powder paddles through blood and heart…

— Jim Carroll

I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic…

— Jim Carroll

I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that.

— Jim Carroll

It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl…

— Jim Carroll

When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were…

— Jim Carroll

all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay

— Jim Carroll

You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's…

— Jim Carroll