Quotes from Kenn Amdahl

Magnificent phrases like 'inductive reactance' flow effortlessly from the lips of guys who can't cook hot dogs or find the flashing blue light in a K-Mart store.

I could not focus on any one subject for long because my mind was cotton candy, wisps and swirls and strands, without substance.

Can you make a wrong turn when you don't know where you're going?

Men are salamanders in My terrarium, trying to fathom the events beyond the glass.

Magnolia danced like a planet would dance, rotating and orbiting, confident in her own gravity.

She glowed like a lighthouse and rolled like the ocean

I'm a cliché," he said softly. "What?" "I'm a story everyone's heard a thousand times.

When a book ends, the good parts get folded up and carried around in somebody's pocket. The rest gets sold at a garage sale for a nickel.

A person's what they fear and what they love.

The ground was so full of life that it could not contain itself, erupting everywhere in a delirium of vegetation.

He was drunk enough that he was willing to share his wisdom with me.

I was a leaf that had released its hold on the tree. This was my moment of motion, of flight – my solitary dance through the air, separate from my billion twins. No longer green and faceless on the tree, not yet crushed and decomposing on the forest floor.

A life had somehow escaped through a rip in the universe.

an afternoon choreographed by Dante, with music by Stephen King. The car was a furnace.

poor people will cheerfully give you their money. Rich people will give you advice.

The "guest house" was a creaking carcass of a shed that was being slowly sucked into the muddy ground.

Most folks remember who they used to be, but they got no idea who they are right now.

That's the problem with civilization. Folks think someone else got to make up their rituals for 'em.