“Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldCareImaginationDifferencesDarknessImagineThousandTenOppositesFloatingMiraculousAsian Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
“Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere.” IfsKnowsEndsFeelingsFeltProcessRoomsGoneAliveWifeWonderfulDoorsHusbandDoctorsBurningGloriousPairsHallsDiamondDesksLungsEaglesBrillianceClosed DoorsSlabs Author:Denis Johnson
“Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.” IfsKnowsBelieveHeartImportantHandsMightCertainTurnsLeftBrainKindnessConnectionsHotRanIronBelieve In MeBurnedLeft Hand Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
“I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingJesusAliveInfluenceSonSillyLegends Author:Denis Johnson
