Quotes from Douglas Clegg

They ate so much food out of the can, the jar, the tinfoil, the box, that the youngest thought her mother's name was Sara Lee.

Chose me because I was good at it. At suffering. That is whom the gods choose.

Do you know that when a man becomes old, he begins to remember what he believed in as a child and it all comes back to him?

God was like the phone company: You paid your bill, and sometimes you got cut off anyway.

1. YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS Youth is a cliff. You leap, and repair the broken bones later. When you're older, you draw the map, retrace your steps and find the cliff's edge again to wonder: Would anyone ever jump if they knew how far down it went? I jumped, once. I'm broken in unseen places.

Nothing within the limits of the human imagination and mind is impossible. If it were, we could not imagine it or dream it.

She found Lucy to be about as interesting as a toothache.

Of the things that are man's achievements, the greatest is suffering.

If only... the two most miserable words in the English language. If only.

There are monsters in the world. They're called human beings." —Michael Diamond, from The Life Beyond

everything can work out fine if you just plant your feet on the ground and look straight ahead. Nothing is a tragedy unless you buy it a suit of clothes and give it a free meal.

Family is putting up with each other's shit sometimes I guess.

It was said that Mrs. Campusky's ovaries were like popcorn poppers and the desert heat kept her puffing up with a never-ending pregnancy.

Victory is freedom of mind and body.' I believe that is true. I would go further and say that victory is freedom of mind from body. Separation from the thing that imprisons us. Flight. Perhaps freedom from life itself. That is victory. Life is brutal. It is like this whip and these ropes. It hurts. It scars. But we must take it.

I saw him as the supplier of my life. In a dream, in a hole, I saw the great snake of life, devouring its own tail. Life eats life, the image of the snake seemed to tell me. Life devours itself. You are part of this, and so is Gup. The snake is the whip in my father;s hand. The whip is in my hand and reaches from my bloodied back to whip my father's hand. The torturer and the tortured are each playing a part and cannot be without the other.

Frailty and cruelty are our gifts to the world. Who is to say that suffering is not the greatest of all gifts from the gods?

All human tragedies are tragedies of innocence waking.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes their way. Happiness only happens for those who cry and those who hurt, for only then can they appreciate the importance of people who touch their lives.

love can be the most enthralling of demons. 3

the one of insane geometries, of orange lightning, of fire that rained from trees like leaves falling, of the birds rising from the water their impossibly pure white wings spreading across the burning sky. As

What was unspeakable found voice and its bleating froze the air for a moment hacked from the fabric of time as the secret of all stabbed at his ears.

Words could kill, sometimes, he thought then. Words could change everything. Lourdes

But he was exhausted, too, and not even feeling as if he were alive. Inside him, it felt as if something brilliant, some fire, had been sucked from his soul, and now he was just an animal living on instinct.

Where I am, it is always night.