Цитаты из книги Love is a Dog From Hell

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

“how’s your health?” he asks.

“physically I’m sound as a tic. mentally I’m wasted, doomed, on my tiny cross, all that crap.”

there is something wrong with me besides melancholia.

such comedy.

there is always one woman to save you from another

and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.

who put this brain inside of me?

it cries it demands it says that there is a chance.

it will not say “no.”

people so tired mutilated either by love or no love. people just are not good to each other one on one.

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.

nerves. nobody has soul enough to overcome nerves.

She likes young Neat boys Unscratched boys With faces like the bottoms Of new saucers

our educational system tells us that we can all be big-ass winners.

it hasn’t told us about the gutters or the suicides.

or the terror of one person aching in one place alone

untouched unspoken to

watering a plant.

we’re all scared but when you’re ugly and you don’t have much left you get strong

this is the problem of being poor: we must share each other’s sounds.

flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh.

no man is invincible. some day you’ll be sent mad by eyes like a child’s crayon drawing. you won’t be able to drink a glass of water or walk across a room. there will be the walls and the sound of the streets outside, and you’ll hear machineguns and mortar shells. that’ll be when you want it and can’t have it.

the teeth are never finally the teeth of love.

love dries up even faster than sperm.

we’ll sleep together tonight trying to fit ourselves inside the wallpaper.

there’s so little to you, she said, that when you die and they burn you they’ll have to add almost all green and blue pebbles.

learning to win is hard— any slob can be a good loser.

if I had to get fucked I’d rather get fucked by somebody with money.