Jack Womack > Quotes

“You don't know who your friends are ... until you're not like them anymore.”
― Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence

“On the news tonight the new President said there's no reason for anyone to worry about the situation. He didn't say which situation.”
― Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence

“As is often the case, the sole person not left speechless in awe by my brilliance is my own beloved wife.”
― Jack Womack, Let's Put the Future Behind Us

“When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.”
― Jack Womack

“A baby almost killed me as I walked to work one morning. By passing beneath a bus shelter's roof at the ordained moment I lived to tell my tale. With strangers surrounding me I looked at what remained. Laoughter from heaven made us lift our eyes skyward. The baby's mother lowered her arms and leaned out her window. Without applause her audience drifted off, seeking crumbs in the gutters of this city of God. Xerox shingles covered the shelter's remaining glass pane, and the largest read:

Want to be crucified. Have own nails.
Leave message on machine.

The fringe of numbers along the ad's hem had been stripped away. My shoes crunched glass underfoot; my skirt clung to my legs as I continued down the street. November dawn's seventy-degree bath made my hair lose its set. Mother above appeared ready to take her own bow; I too, as ever, flew on alone. ”
― Jack Womack, Heathern

“Not long after we started working for him I asked Bernard if he thought Thatcher was evil,'I said. 'He said it was like asking what jazz is.”
― Jack Womack, Heathern

“Mama says mine is a night mind.”
― Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence

“Today, as never before—the information media having become to enlightenment as the cereal aisle is to the supermarket—if you choose not to access the past, you are de facto free to rule it out of existence, at least so far as you might be concerned.”
― Jack Womack

“Traditional American handicraft was employed in the wall’s construction, and so most of it had collapsed.”
― Jack Womack, Ambient

“Holidays pain your soul so Anne you always think where you’ve been and who with every year counting back and when they’re gone like this year the ache won’t stop.”
― Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence

“Why don't boys like girls as they are?' 'They bore easy cause the so deadhead. Sometimes they want you mami, sometimes sis, sometimes lovergirl. You game with boys you got to know who you are and not let them tell you'.”
― Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence

“Her pants were so tight that if you cut her she wouldn't bleed”
― Jack Womack