“You don't have to have a reason if you have this need.” — Joseph McElroy Intelligence Copy Share Image
“There is no future. It's sentiment about what might have been.” — Joseph McElroy Future Copy Share Image
“And isn't this hard when we ourselves are always at the beginning of ourselves?” — Joseph McElroy Beginning Copy Share Image
“My personal view is that there are many gods, and when we organize and rank them, we go too far, we ask… — Joseph McElroy Gods 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“He alone can return to Earth to try to do something, only to find that all he can do is try to… — Joseph McElroy Earth 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 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
“... but then the rain came down and rained, heavier on the downswing than the up, and hanging on to my seat… — Joseph McElroy 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
“When the phone comes up in his hand, he has thought out this death of his ahead of time all by himself.… — 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
“Special reincarnation? he said. She sighed. Why did people want to complicate things by coming back twenty years later for a second,… — Joseph McElroy Reincarnation 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
“And when she said, What do you want to be when you grow up? some kid said, A good burglar, and we… — Joseph McElroy 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 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
“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
“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
“When two or more survivors, she said, were gathered together, they could breathe their mutual auras in and out to set up… — Joseph McElroy Nature Copy Share Image
“... between the Great Swirl and the Two Screen, between the back-and-forth and the endless curve that will come of it--as between… — Joseph McElroy History Copy Share Image
“The void will calm things down. Speaks through you like a whole thing of force and membrane neither yet full-grown. But in… — Joseph McElroy Time Copy Share Image
“If you can describe something, you must take responsability for it.” — Joseph McElroy Responsibility 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
“Maybe that's what we find out, Larry, what we're always finding out, that every little thing matters.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she thought there would be peace on earth if we would just learn to breath. All alone we have to invent… — Joseph McElroy Breath Copy Share Image
“Everything got an explanation: the difference is you pick some things to not explain.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
