Elberto Muller > Quotes

“It seemed everyone had something to do but me, although that's usually the way things go. A car spends most of its life parked, railroad tracks are mostly empty, a gun is rarely fired. Find one of those big cocks, the ones the girls all swoon for, or the tight cunts that fly about in locker room ronversations, and think about what they do the whole day. Nothing really, just sit there in a pair of pants, hanging around. That's what keeps the bridges relatively clear of jumpers I suppose, that little glimmer, the possibility that a patch of sunlight might move over for just a second to warm our awful skulls.”
― Elberto Muller, 2009: An Autopsy

“The city was a different world, stretching and loud and fairly sparkling with gold teeth. There in the window of an oft-robbed store was a sign meant to say SMILE YOU ARE BEING RECORDED but RECORDED was blocked by the window frame and so it read simply SMILE YOU ARE BEING underneath a happy face, which caused me to grin and think humdrum things for an inordinate amount of time.”
― Elberto Muller

“if we were clever we would have pushed her into the East River, but we weren‘t clever at all, just two more knuckleheads in a nation of constant dullards, fucking up perpetually;”
― Elberto Muller, 2009: An Autopsy