Quotes from Dennis Cooper

Does that convey my trauma? Shall I boringly compare myself to the biblical Egyptian spearmen tripping over themselves in the gushy mud and piles of flopping fish between the Red Sea's reconvening halves?

So I thought, you know, Teach me about death, Satan, I don't care. And it was all about murder, which was great because when you're not the one getting murdered, murder's the ultimate interesting thing. I totally agree with that.

Human bodies are such garbage bags.

When you see everything you realise nothing means anything.

when you see everything, you realize that nothing means anything

To you, the fairy tale's a cheesy medium that builds physically unsound worlds that one eventually outgrows, and to me a fairy tale is city planning.

Why do you think UFOs never land? Why don't ghosts just say hello?

Don't stop believing in me, Brian. It was just a bad day.

I'm just some fingers resting lightly on a cursor as it slides magically around a kind of Ouija board.

That's why I'm happy I'm famous for what I'm so famous for. Being gorgeous, I mean. It helps me believe in myself and not worry that I'm just a bunch of blue tubes inside a skin wrapper, which is what everyone actually is.

When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love.

How cool would it have been to live back when the wind and birds and avalanches sounded like Black Sabbath, and killing gave people these huge fucking hard-ons?

Can you be more clear?" No. When I try, my beliefs or desires come out beautiful. They are beautiful to me, but I cannot understand them in that form.

I know why everyone in a false world would think a boy who spent his whole life doing nothing is God. I just don't know how to give it decent subtitles yet.

I'm a nice person. I'm just stupid to want people to like me.