Marcus > Marcus's Quotes

“i don't want to hate the president

i don't want to go to harvard

i don't want to win the pulitzer prize

i just want to sit in my bathtub

and think about relationships i will never have

with people i will never meet

and then go lay in my bed

with a magnifying glass

and count all the stiches in my sheets

until i fall asleep

and wake up

to repeat again.”
― Ellen Kennedy

“I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.”
― Anais Nin, Henry & June

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“The concept of virginity is a social construct. If you’re wondering if my commercial value, self-respect, and/or quality of my immortal soul has been affected by things that have gone in or out of my vagina the answer is no.”
― Christy Leigh Stewart

“Old women have a thing for me. And I don't mean a pinch-my-cheek, pat-my-head kind of thing. I mean a grab-my-ass, rub-my-junk, why-don't-you-push-my-wheelchair-into-the-broom-closet-so-we-can-get-nasty kind of thing.
It's f*cking disturbing.”
― Emma Chase, Tangled

“a kite is a victim you are sure of.
you love it because it pulls.”
― Leonard Cohen

“All books are merely delayed dust.”
― George Elliott Clarke

“I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense. I wanted to tell jokes, but I didn't give a fuck about the punchline. ”
― Harmony Korine

“What you were is what a part of you will always be.”
― Cameron Pierce

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“My ideal date would involve painful silence. My ideal date wouldn't involve me.”
― Sam Pink, I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It

“Three days ago, I was fired from my job teaching at a college because one of my students
bet me that you don’t cum when you get a prostate exam and it took me seven minutes
to prove that dumb fucking kid wrong. It was hard to touch my own prostate, but
ultimately, I was correct. I came onto the floor and onto the person in the desk up front.
I said, “Kids, that is what is known as ‘empirical evidence’.”
― Sam Pink, Dragons With Cancer

“The only war is the war against the imagination.”
― Diane Di Prima

“Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home.”
― Eileen Myles

“Too much is almost enough”
― Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga: Poems

“The empty rooms always had a terribly depressing effect upon my father when he considered, he said, that the person who dwelt in them had to fill them solely with his own fantasies, with fantastic objects, in order not to go out of his mind.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles

“Recently I've been dreaming
of cursing old people
with little provocation,
because their culture
has a long history of enslaving,
raping, and segregating,
and they have special lights
which prevent us from dancing.”
― Matthew Rohrer, A Green Light

“You still worked, thinking I didn’t.
But I do still work.
I still work and I want you to know that.”
― Sam Pink, Rontel

“The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche