33 Quotes by Dennis Cooper

I’m just some fingers resting lightly on a cursor as it slides magically around a kind of Ouija board.

Does that convey my trauma? Shall I boringly compare myself to the biblical Egyptian spearmen tripping over themselves in the gushy mud and piles of flopping fish between the Red Sea’s reconvening halves?

I like flat black. It doesn’t try to explain anything, and it’s been hip since before I was born, I guess.

Emotional. Out of his mind grateful. Anything goes. I love you, I love you, I love you.

When you see everything you realize nothing means anything.

When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love.

I know why everyone in a false world would think a boy who spent his whole life doing nothing is God. I just don’t know how to give it decent subtitles yet.

The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps despite the bliss that animates them when they’re trying hard.

Don’t stop believing in me, Brian. It was just a bad day.