Quotes from Michael Ventura

Old tricky tequila, which tastes to me like a mix of tears and spit.

One reason you get groggy, long-distance driving, is that you don't move your face.

Tuned pianos are pretty much alike, but no pianos are out of tune the same.

It was the best juke in Austin, had everything, old and new, black, white and brown, urban and country — It's the Great American Novel of Jukeboxes.

Your body knows in all its parts, when 'used to' starts, when nothing will ever be the way it's been. Your body knows first. Takes your 'you' weeks to catch up.

Much of the terror of death is terror of dying without having given. Without even finding what one has to give.

She would never feel conspiratorial with a male in authority, and there were moments when therapist and client needed to feel they were sharing a conspiracy.

A hundred years ago behavior was explained by one shelf of books, now it's explained by a different shelf of books, and in a hundred years they'll explain it differently again.