Jim Dodge Quotes

I wanted someone to hold me close so I slide across and snuggled in tight and said, 'Hold me.' He did, and it was tender and truly sweet, but without a trace of that wild carnal edge you would have to cross if you want to get so close together you can't tell each other apart.

I pushed it. I said, 'I want to get closer. I want you to love who I am.' Love doesn't do much for the powers of explanation, but since Love has never asked for one itself, that seems fair enough.

It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself.

it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.

you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years.

a national government is bad enough, but this administration is the largest collection of scoundrels and morons in recent memory.

Fuck fashion in the face of need, and fuck it anyway just on good general principles.

most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.

Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.

It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing.

I don't know a fucking thing. That must mean I'm finally sane and that's an excellent place to start going crazy again.

The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

Let's get really fucked up and full of sentimental despair and then finally decide life, despite every heartbreak and anguished cry, is worth each pulse and breath.