Quotes by : Denis Johnson

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along....

We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where humanity's....

. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.

The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood.

Animals had returned to what was left of the forest...clusters of orange butterflies exploded off the....

The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached.......

At the sight of the flag he tasted tears in his throat. In the Stars and Stripes all the passions of....

Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination,....

When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like....

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.