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....

[G]ive him this much: death didn't just walk up and inhale him. He wasn't exactly whisked away. He left....

. . . 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....

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

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order....

Harold's Bow and FoodBowl bowl bowl bowlFood food food foodThe miracle of the heavenly restaurantI mouth....

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