“There is no future. It's sentiment about what might have been.” — Joseph McElroy Future Copy Share Image
“Isn't history breaking so fast that you have to anticipate it?” — Joseph McElroy Anticipate Copy Share Image
“If he only heard himself think, he'd think before he spoke.” — Joseph McElroy Heard Copy Share Image
“I am alone, I am alone, but not lonely, not lonely for people, it seems.” — Joseph McElroy Loneliness Copy Share Image
“Isn't there more important things than being brief, Jim?, if you're still there. So brief there is only everything to remember.” — Joseph McElroy Important things Copy Share Image
“Life's in parts, and some go together and some don't, and some incongruously don't, and the whole scheme is better left to… — Joseph McElroy Life Copy Share Image
“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.” — Joseph McElroy Crime Copy Share Image
“And I got to stop thinking there's what was and what will be, and start thinking there's a story in between.” — Joseph McElroy Stop Thinking Copy Share Image
“It was as if suddenly, looking into the revealed distance, we could think.” — Joseph McElroy Suddenly Copy Share Image
“Larry is slowly, softly almost laughing, like not quite trying to throw up, and Mayn finds history right there.” — Joseph McElroy Comedy Copy Share Image
“The void was not just a regular void and empty but was full of all that we did not expect of ourselves.” — Joseph McElroy Void Copy Share Image
“I sat reading from first thing in the morning till the middle of the afternoon. I used to get a phone call… — Joseph McElroy Phone call Copy Share Image
“Joy could be romantic, and she knew he was too, though she played to the other side of him, the part that… — Joseph McElroy Joy Copy Share Image
“He's seeing things, he's a victim of last night, last year, of what he's read or been told; and he's sick of… — Joseph McElroy Last night Copy Share Image
“And when she said, What do you want to be when you grow up? some kid said, A good burglar, and we… — Joseph McElroy Kid Said Copy Share Image
“Do you ever feel,' she wonders, 'that we fit into a large life that doesn't know us but--hold us? And that this… — Joseph McElroy Life Copy Share Image
“... people hasten to get their train, and Lar's humming of course at the premise that beyond this gone-to-pieces capability they will… — Joseph McElroy Fitness Copy Share Image
“Special reincarnation? he said. She sighed. Why did people want to complicate things by coming back twenty years later for a second,… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“We remember what's going on. Already remember what's been here with us so long we had the time to see but now… — Joseph McElroy Memory Copy Share Image
“And in this carpeted room where she now got a very odd division of temperature between outside and inside like swallowing ice… — Joseph McElroy Ice cream Copy Share Image
“Nobody kids around with Smitty lately, but he's got his tapes with guys sharing their thoughts and feelings, so you know that… — Joseph McElroy Death Copy Share Image
“Did some deaths go on hurting? were there winds below the sea that blew as fast as all other winds but blew… — Joseph McElroy Death Copy Share Image
“Everything got an explanation: the difference is you pick some things to not explain.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“Words made you laugh and history fell apart into tales and isolated mysteries threatening to be trivial.” — Joseph McElroy History Copy Share Image
“And isn't this hard when we ourselves are always at the beginning of ourselves?” — Joseph McElroy Beginning Copy Share Image
“And what is your story? someone interrupts. What did you do to end up in this endless community of minds?” — Joseph McElroy Psychology Copy Share Image
“She arched and farted like Mona Lisa if you really looked at her and for good fruitarian measure.” — Joseph McElroy Mona lisa Copy Share Image
“Above his olive-skinned neck a Low Dark Fade they call it at the barber's school where I go for a $4.99 haircut… — Joseph McElroy Barber Copy Share Image
“I see you moving and me here. Ever-moving. But sometimes moving in one place without ever leaving, yet knowing you could leave.” — Joseph McElroy Moving Copy Share Image
“... or a Buenos Aires cab's exhaust pipe? An exhaust pipe which James Mayn was once invited to screw, having asked a… — Joseph McElroy Buenos aires Copy Share Image
“We found we counted on our bodies to tell us even what words we were to know. Until we learned too late… — Joseph McElroy Time Copy Share Image
“If you can describe something, you must take responsability for it.” — Joseph McElroy Responsibility Copy Share Image
