32 Quotes by Jack Ketchum

As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?” – Tom Waits.

You tell me why’s a man’s blood is any better or any more precious than a dog’s blood? It sure ain’t to the dog.

The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your side but not block the way.

I have always felt a fundamental core of loneliness in me. Perhaps it comes from being an only child. Perhaps it’s my grandfather’s sullen thick German blood. I have been alone with my wife and alone with my children, untouchable, unreachable, and I suspect that most of the time they haven’t known. It runs deep, this aloneness. I have accommodated it. It informs all my relationships and all my expectations. It makes me almost impossible to surprise by life’s grimmer turns of fate.

Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

Bar life is about as democratic as we get.

What a terrible time to find out how good life can be, I thought. And how good to find out anyway.