Quotes from Tim Tharp

I've never seen her laugh like this before. It's a sight to behold, a wonder, like the Eiffel Tower or the World's Largest Prairie Dog.

No,' I say l. 'It's not all right. But I couldn't help it

Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to wherever time washes things away to.

Those colors of hers really begin their attack on me now, ripping through my skin, electrifying my bloodstream, sending sparks zapping around in my stomach. I take a long pull on my whisky but I can't keep a hard-on from starting. I only mention this because I have a theory that the hard-on is the number one reason for sexism down through history. I mean, it is seriously impossible to really soak in a girl's ideas, no matter how deep or true, when you have a stiffy coming on.

Uh, sure, if it doesn't take too long. I'm supposed to be at a big police banquet in about thirty seconds. They'll probably send a car by for me if I'm late.

Now, thinking back on my exes is like looking at a flowerbed on the other side of a window. They're beautiful, but you can't touch them.

It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of being super-alive. You're in on a secret that all the dull, sleeping people don't know about. Unlike them, you're alert and aware of existing right here in this precise moment between what happened and what's going to happen.

The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow.

when you're a little kid. Everything is a sparkling wonder.

it gets a little tiresome when you're so high you go to the movies and look up at the marquee and think the starting times are the ticket prices. I mean, I remember standing there going, 'Ten-fifteen? What kind of price is ten dollars and fifteen cents?' It's a hassle." "Yeah, one time I was putting gas in my car and thought the number of gallons was the price. I even got into an argument with the cashier. It was hilarious.

My job is okay. You know what an okay job is, don't you? It's a job you only hate some of the time instead of all of the time

Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat

I want to swear to the king of the king of the kings it's enough. But this afternoon the magic has all run out.

It's too big to change. It's too heavy and all sharp-cornered and shit.

Nothing helps. I'm a black spot on the chest X-ray of the universe.

Her voice is so soft. If it were a food item, it'd be a marshmallow.

Embrace the weird, dude. Enjoy it because it's never going away.

You have to stop thinking that way. Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.

The whole magnetic thing about sex is you want the other person to want you.

That's all right," she says, and I have to wonder how many times she's said that to the people in her life who screwed her over somehow.

Don't worry," says Ricky. "I'm sure everyone isn't bringing a present. You can just think of paying the cover charge as your gift." "What? A cover charge? Presents? What are these people, a bunch of capitalists?

We all know what a snooze perfection can be.