“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
“I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a vasectomy a long time ago, and somebody else must have gotten her pregnant. I also told her once that I had inoperable cancer and would soon be passed away and gone, eternally. But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me.” ThinkingWayFirstsLongMadeMatterGoneLong TimeCancerHorribleDramaticHallsPregnantRepentLong Time AgoPassed AwayVasectomy 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
“There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so on. Because we all believed we were tragic, and we drank. We had that helpless, destined feeling. We would die with handcuffs on. We would be put a stop to, and it wouldn't be our fault. So we imagined. And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.” ThinkingReasonMomentsFeelingsMightWould BeTodayDiesFoundTomorrowFaultsRidiculousYesterdayInnocentTragicHelplessDestinedDrankVinesHandcuffs Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
