Lenny Bruce is Dead Quotes

“Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel.”
― Jonathan Goldstein, Lenny Bruce is Dead

“he rubbed his feet back and forth on the library carpet and when she walked by, he touched her with the tip of his index finger”
― Jonathan Goldstein, Lenny Bruce is Dead

“Reggie made him feel like he was nine years old and out for dinner with his family at the Ponderosa Steak House and he had run into his French teacher and his mother invited her to dine with him.
Reggie made him feel like he was sitting in a public bathroom stall and someone had come into the bathroom and began singing a song about what a stinky bastard he was while he was in there sweating it out.
Reggie made him feel like someone had taken the red Tonka fire engine he had always wanted and painfully corkscrewed it down the front of his jeans.
Reggie made him feel like the ice cream man had just rolled by and all his dead grandparents were mooning him out the truck window.”
― Jonathan Goldstein, Lenny Bruce is Dead

“What is it about legs? Or what is it about breasts? Or the small of the back? What is it about anything? One day there will be no difference between anything. It'll all be the exact same thing. One day you'll look in the dictionary and there will be only one word and you'll just have to make do.”
― Jonathan Goldstein, Lenny Bruce is Dead

“If you could jerk off to something else, like a hamburger, could you imagine the delight in being alive?”
― Jonathan Goldstein, Lenny Bruce is Dead