Day Keene > Quotes

“I wish I was a man. A man can do so many things. He can go to sea. He can be a soldier. He can fly. He can crawl in and out of beds. He can get drunk and into messes. Then all he has to do is sober up and take a bath and no one thinks less of him".”
― Day Keene, Home Is the Sailor

“Love. A Will-o`-the-wisp. St. Elmo's fire. A biological urge. The chemical affinity of one body for another. The deep-rooted urge of the male to propagate his kind. A package of cigarettes. A Hershey bar. A ten-thousand-dollar mink coat. Five dollars.”
― Day Keene, Home Is the Sailor

“He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and suddenly wanted to do both.”
― Day Keene, Framed in Guilt / My Flesh is Sweet