52 Quotes by Tom Spanbauer

Stars, hard bits of diamond light.

The fates lead her who will; who won’t they drag.

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.

A ghost in this place. That’s what I am. Or I’m real and Manhattan is a dream.

You know, Rose said, You’re not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You’re not the first man to make his hard-on into the Holy Grail.

If you own yourself, you own the world.

The way I figure it, we know we got this world, so live in this one while you’re here. I figure the next one will take care of itself.