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“In loving him, I saw men encouraging each other to lay down their arms. In loving him, I saw small-town laborers creating excavations that other men spend their lives trying to fill. In loving him, I saw moving films of stone buildings; I saw a hand in prison dragging snow in from the sill. In loving him, I saw great houses being erected that would soon slide into the waiting and stirring seas. I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life.”
― David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

“I have dreamed constantly of tornadoes since I was a child; in recent years they appear in larger numbers and the sense of their power is overwhelming within these sleeps. Recently I had a camera in a dream where a tornado was ripping across a landscape and managed to take pictures of it. Somewhere since childhood I have found comfort and hope in various forces of nature that were either unexplainable or uncontrollable; spontaneous self-combustion or tornadoes, floods and earthquakes and volcanoes— when the future of civilization and all its leanings could suddenly be altered or whisked from human hands by natural occurrences or ‘unnatural’ phenomenon such as flying saucers or the reviving from glacial sleep of an old bewildered dinosaur as in black and white Japanese movies; all this gave me faith in nature and the possibilities of change.”
― David Wojnarowicz, David Wojnarowicz: In the Shadow of Forward Motion

“Oh, amazing, fun, very fun, trippy, mind-altering, I love it,’ George said enthusiastically, but when he looked at James Turrell, the artist seemed unsatisfied. ‘Words aren’t my talent,’ he continued. ‘I’m more of a soundproof kind of person. So those words I used were leaks. But what happened in me when you asked was quite intense.”
― Dennis Cooper, I Wished