Alex Budris > Alex's Quotes

“All persons, places, and events in this book are real. Certain speeches and thoughts are necessarily constructions by the author. No names have been changed to protect the innocent, since God Almighty protects the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“What cannot be cannot be, besides which, it is impossible.”
― Roberto Bolaño

“She kept talking. She told everyone. There was more to it, and she was trying to get it talked out. After a time, she quit trying.”
― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I'd pick up the New York Times and see myself mangled all over the Op-Ed page... And then beaten into a bloody coma the next evening by some hired thugs in an alley behind the National Press Building.....”
― Hunter Thompson

“it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems

“I get the willies when I see closed doors.”
― Joseph Heller, Something Happened

“Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes...”
― Charles Bukowski

“It's like training a rat to be a dog so you can train the dog to be a monkey... (pg 72)”
― Alistair Rennie, Hardweird: Bleakwarrior Enters the Pith of Shadows and Other Tales of Cosmic Disorder

“His whole body sank into coldness and wet and he couldn't;'t breathe and the moon was dark and wavery as it is when it's seen through water. A huge animal was lolloping towards him... like an ape on all fours. It had two heads. (pg 44; Breakneck Crag)”
― Richard Sullivan

“Holmes would have found it useless to explain to [Watson] that cats partake of the most ancient mysteries of the dark, and so have a proper place in any night of intrigue and adventure. (pg 270)”
― Darrell Schweitzer

“The universe dances to unimaginably complex rhythms at the scales of the very small and the very large. We are sandwiched between them, bacteria caught in two glass slides, and we are foolish to forget the eye peering down the microscope at us. (pg 146)”
― Sean Williams

“Life was one big horrible climb up a greased pole to nowheres... a greased pole that rose out of emptiness below us and disappeared into a black dream above us...”
― Lou Cameron, Angel's Flight

“Sometimes the only difference between living and dying is that living hurts more.”
― Mark Russell

“Kings, queens, and emperors come and go. They are but fleas, fighting over which one owns the dog.”
― Mark Russell

“The drawback to killing all your generals... is that it turns your army into a bit of a shit factory.”
― Mark Russell

“I no longer care that my time on earth is coming to an end. What better way than in hot blood? Would you rather meet the grim reaper at Roncevaux or between bedsheets stiff with your own fluids?”
― James Lee Burke, Every Cloak Rolled in Blood

“Here too it was Sunday, a hollow day outside reality.”
― Georges Simenon