79 Quotes by Andrew Davidson

It’s not easy to look the way I do: in popular culture, one only sees a face like mine on the Phaontom of the Opera, on Freddie Krueger from Elm Street, or on Leatherface from deep in the heart of Texas. Sure, a burn victim may “get the girl” – but usually only with a pickax.

Christ, I’m in Hell and they wear uniforms.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday’s canvas with today’s paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret...

My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I’m unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

In those days, you must understand, children were basically thought to be inadequate adults. A child’s nature was not something that could be developed, because character was set at birth; childhood was a period of revelation, not development, so when my language abilities appeared they were thought to have always existed, placed there by God, waiting to be made known.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

Talking with the mouth of a beast won’t ease your pain.