The Road to Key West Quotes

“Next to no money, ill health is life’s greatest plague, I think.” He took another draw from his cigarillo. “I’ve been without finances once or twice in my life—I know what it feels like, but that’s not one of my problems now. Health, however, cannot be bought and paid for like a burrito at a roadside stand. Good health can be more elusive than money.” As”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“Just about the time you’re strolling down the street of life, hands in your pockets, not a care in the world, somebody pushes a piano out of a sixth-story window….”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“It was like a Michener book (with the other fifty pages of the description torn out).”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“I discovered that owning a cat should be mandatory for every male at age sixteen. It’s the supreme field study on the opposite sex. If you pay attention at all, you come away with volumes of knowledge on care, nurturing, artful communication, and proper approaches to sex (with the girl, not the cat). They don’t like being chased too much. They want to be left alone sometimes, and they want love at their pace and time. Their feelings are easily hurt, but if you don’t speak the language of subtlety you’ll rarely know when that is. Never hold them so tightly that they feel the need to free themselves—always gently, sometimes firmly, and always part with a caress. And if they move away, let them. It’s the only way to assure they’ll be back. Cats like things they can’t always have. That’s why they chase butterflies—because they only get about half of them. For cats, and women, you want to represent a more difficult than average butterfly.”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“Sundance just laughed. “C’mon, where’s your adventurous spirit?” “I think it got sucked up my little puckered asshole when you started shooting holes in the ceiling of a bank and demanding their money,” I said. Sundance shook his head and smiled. “No cojones, no colones, man. That’s how it is in the bank-robbing business.” Will”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“Just about the time you’re strolling down the street of life, hands in your pockets, not a care in the world, somebody pushes a piano out of a sixth-story window…. We”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“Hello mons! Hello mons! Lonely sky sailors! May the yellow night frog leave you many droppings of peace and prosperity.” I”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“Whether it happened in one day or a million years, I came to realize that the ocean is the creator’s finest work—the detail, hues, and sheer artistry. It is the effort of an infinite imagination and the continual process of a power beyond the manipulation of man.   It”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“but I ended up in the Florida Keys in August of 1971. The Keys—haven of scoundrels, smugglers, and pirates for over 300 years—a bastion for independent thinkers, benign crazies, adventurers, and visionaries.”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“But the ‘70s brought a new sense of freedom and imagination, and the Florida Keys became magical, like Oz—rife with characters and experiences beyond ordinary vision. Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, or even Jimmy Buffett would have struggled to match the residents of that distant time.”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“I can’t believe in impossible things,” said Alice. “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I believed in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”   — Lewis Carroll”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“Alice. “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I believed in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”   — Lewis Carroll”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West