Gary Barwin > Quotes

“You know what they say about being a slave: it’s a terrible job, but at least you have job security.”
― Gary Barwin, Yiddish for Pirates

“Man can get used to anything, even feeling better.”
― Gary Barwin, Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy

“The virus is a single word in the great wiki of hope and information, a mortal sleeperhold in spacetime, an earnest Tonga deathgrip on life. I’m the big world, there may be the end-of-days tectonic supernovae of bodyslams, the torque of tiger feint crucifix armbars on the topology of subspace, but the virus perseveres in its ardent intercellular replications, its ontological infections, its almost-endless epistemology of transmission.”
― Gary Barwin, I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457

“Perhaps you serve the wind or the ocean and yet no man" she continued. "Or perhaps your master is the same as he whom you have thwarted, but yet you took a different road when the deed was close. I do not know, but God and queens forgive and reward those who choose the right path.”
― Gary Barwin, Yiddish for Pirates

“You could wish to travel to the sky with a jump, but, unless your legs were mountains or you had a map charting where the high blue reached close, no words could take you there, and no king or queen could, even if willing, finance such a leap.”
― Gary Barwin, Yiddish for Pirates