Michael W. Clune > Quotes

“To pass through addiction is to come to terms with not being where you are. More and more people are entering the modern world by passing through addiction.”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

“Suspended, The Bard's Tale II, Ultima III, Wulfenstein, Elite, Pirates!, Might and Magic II. I stack them, one on top of the other. My shy blue life climbs slowly up. My climbing life.

When I die, I will remember the color of the sky.”
― Michael W. Clune, Gamelife: A Memoir

“The secret is that the power of dope comes from the first time you do it.”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

“Gratitude takes time. It’s the fruit of experience. It still feels new to me, I haven’t had it for that long. Gratitude came only after I’d passed through all the other feelings.”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

“After one year all that will remain of the car is a vague outline. Trees, stop signs, people, and books grow old, crumble and disappear inside our habits.”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

“Isn’t it nice to sit down with a good book and take the phone off the hook”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

“I heard a word I felt I had always known, a word that had slumbered, skeletal, inside every other word my parents had ever spoken. Divorce.”
― Michael W. Clune, Gamelife: A Memoir

“Summer is the flattest season. Season of two dimensions, of shapes stuck on a wall of light.”
― Michael Clune

“The addict, alone among humans, is given something that is always new.”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

“I saw that the backs of the cards were covered with runes. There was a squeal from the doorway.”
― Michael W. Clune, Gamelife: A Memoir

“A flat map is fun in its purest state.”
― Michael W. Clune, Gamelife: A Memoir

“But we advance into the mystery beyond life only by misunderstanding the living.”
― Michael W. Clune, Gamelife: A Memoir