Quotes from book

Love Is a Dog from Hell

“one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid”

“one more creature
dizzy with love”

“I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.”

“There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.”

“If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.”

“I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love.”

“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.”

“when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this.”

“escape from the black widow spider
is a miracle as great as art.
what a web she can weave
slowly drawing you to her
she'll embrace you
then when she's satisfied
she'll kill you
still in her embrace
and suck the blood from you.”

“theres no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
nobody ever finds
the one.”

“if you think they didn't go crazy
in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.”

“I wish I were driving a blue 1952 Buick
or a dark blue 1942 Buick
or a blue 1932 Buick
over a cliff of hell and into the
sea.”

“the writing of some
men
is like a vast bridge
that carries you
over
the many things
that claw and tear.

The Wine of Forever”

“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”

“eleven months.

now she's gone
gone as they go.”

“my 6 foot goddess
makes me laugh
the laughter of the mutilated
who still need
love…

she has saved me
from everything that is
not here”

“she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.”

“the masses are everywhere
they know how to do things:
they have sane and deadly angers
for sane and deadly
things.”

“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”