61 Quotes by Dennis Vickers

Respect the world and it takes care of you; disrespect her and she kicks your ass.

Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new.

He believed, as many do, that the better the shoe, the more exercise wearing it provided. With shoes good enough, the wearer didn’t need to exercise at all – the shoes took care of it.

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that was a bad idea. One day we’ll figure out, or our descendants will figure out, that people owning land they don’t live on or work is a bad idea too.

Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?

Her hair burst from her head like a fireworks shell erupting, framing her face in spray of red-blond energy.

Abandoned like an empty beer bottle, cigarette butt, worn-out shoe.

Suddenly, she emitted a loud, long fart, like air escaping a beach ball, exhaust pipe of a Model T, tire-inflating hose at the service station, and this without any forewarning borborygmus.