52 Quotes by Tom Spanbauer

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

I tell you I'm tired of hearing it. There ain't nothing that happens to a person that ain't that person. The world out there only does what you tell it to do. The world is happening to you the way it is happening because you're telling yourself the story that way. If you want to change the world so damn bad, Ida, then where you got to start is how it is you're looking at it.

With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing.

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

Looking for who I am is who I am.

I was wounded by a blow of love.

Felt good, though, just being what I was.

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

At our table in the corner by the window, huddled around a flame in a red glass, all of us, body to body to body to body. The touch that proves you're not alone, that someone else is there.