82 Quotes by Jim Carroll

All I can say right now is that I'm just happy to be free. I was treated very well. It's important people know that - that I was not harmed. They never said they would hit me, never threatened me in any way.

You see, you just don’t know I’m here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show.

I’ll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

There are times when the vehicle is in the ready mode, there are no indications externally that the vehicle can move and yet if someone accidentally hits the pedal, say when someone’s inside, the car will move.

I think of poetry and how I see it as just a raw block of stone ready to be shaped, that way words are never a horrible limit to me, just tools to shape.

I’m just really a wise ass kid getting wiser and I’m going to get even somehow for your dumb hatreds and all them war baby dreams you left in my scarred bed with dreams of bombs falling above that cliff I’m hanging steady to.

Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we’re the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.

It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn’t beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.

I want to talk. I talk to everybody, and it pisses me off when they interpret to talk back. I sometimes think of offering money to friends to buy their turn in a conversation.