David Boyne > David's Quotes

“When things are going well, New Yorkers complain, when things are going badly, New Yorkers complain, and when things are fucked up beyond all reason, New Yorkers shut up and do whatever needs to be done.”
― David Boyne

“I hated everything about it. I was enthralled.”
― David Boyne

“Running Away is what we call a do-over. This is
why California, our most populous state, is known as the do-over state.”
― David Boyne

“Just wander around
and do what you most want to do.”
― David Boyne

“I thought, I’m alive. I’m free. Now what the fuck am I going to do?”
― David Boyne

“The two towers were living creatures. They breathed,
their lungs and bodies expanding and contracting;
their joints creaked, echoing each other, and they
swayed in tandem, genetically linked, as all twins are.”
― David Boyne

“My Irish Catholic upbringing taught me a prayer to express profound amazement with God’s complex creation. I whispered it. “Holy fucking shit.”
― David Boyne

“At seventeen, try as I might, I utterly failed to
imagine me, my life, or my world at age forty-three.”
― David Boyne

“I stood on the doorstep of my girlfriend’s house and told her clearly and forthrightly, if not eloquently, that our relationship was over. She
nodded, distracted. I couldn’t blame her, as I’d already broken up with her twice before.”
― David Boyne

“There are only two things you have no choice about. Second thing is, you have to die. First thing is, you have to live until you die.”
― David Boyne

“When we occasionally pause to meditate deeply on death and on being dead, the next time we are driving our red convertible BMW down Interstate 5 with the top down, the wind blowing in our hair, the sun slow-burning melanoma into our skin, and the stereo playing loud while we shout at the sky, “When you’re a Jet you’re a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette to your last dying day!”—our joy in being alive will be, will go, even deeper.”
― David Boyne

“I carry a notepad with me at all times, in case life sends me a bumper sticker slogan that I mistake for an original thought.”
― David Boyne

“Of course, this was a delusion. Delusion being a
synonym for dream.”
― David Boyne