82 Quotes by Jim Carroll

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.

I wait on the origin of night's sounds waking. I knowthat here only the blind man sings, even in rainThe notes of drenched violins rise like warped mirrors'and the last clouds part slowly, like a cracked wheel.

Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.

Now I got these diaries that have the greatest hero a writer needs, this crazy fucking New York.

I'm beginning to have second thoughts regarding the validity of Gloria's theory that I can overcome my heroin addiction by the simple process of shooting up vast quantities of speed with her twenty times daily.

Little kids shoot marbleswhere the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light…I just want to be pure.

Where she fell was in between the cross members that support the fabric. She landed in the middle and it cradled her. She hit it exactly right. A couple feet either way and ...

We're feeling ecstatic. It's been a long haul, and we're done with it now.