Quotes from John Holmes

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

The Army was good for me. I can't honestly say that it taught me any morals or sense of responsibility. I had been raised with those qualities. What it taught me was that there was a whole world of sex I had yet to discover.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

A dog is not "almost human", and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

Your talk had a glow that fought the darkness back.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.