Quotes by : Jim Carroll

Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life.....

I wind up stretched across the couchstill nodding with Sherlock Holmesexamining our crushed veins

all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

Poverty of young men alone behind thestairways, who practicealchemy inside bottle caps, who knowthe altruism....

It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was....

You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth.....

Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities,....

On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping....

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.