Quotes from Larry Brown

Couldn't get no closer and couldn't get no further away.

The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.

The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.

That boy," he said. "I've done him ever favor I could. Some folks you can't do nothing with. Just sorry. God knows I've done plenty of drinking and stuff in my time, but I be damn if I ever tried to cheat anybody out of any money.

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work

Are you happy by yourself?" "I'm used to it," he said. "That don't mean I like it.

I've seen Jesus. He just looks like you and me. You could meet Him out on the street and you wouldn't know Him. I know why He ain't come back. The world would probably find some way to kill Him again.

People think man is cruel. Hey, what about the child of man? There ain't nothing meaner than some little deranged six-year-old sadistic motherfucker loose in a playground. You think a person's got to be grown before he's a maniac? Shit.

they had more shit on tv than you could believe now.

Fear. Help you get some heightened awareness. - Braden Chaney

Asking God to take her. How does anybody even know what God is? Other than love.

We scurry around like Santa's elves, the fire out of control, neighbors in their pajamas and housecoats and overcoats screaming for us to do something. And, well, ladies and gentlemen, looks like we're doing about all we can do.

Dopo un anno di terapia,il mio psichiatra mi ha detto,"Forse la vita non è per tutti

We ain't having no more futile wars. Till we have one in the Middle East.

When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.

I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.