Gary Indiana > Quotes

“America ... loves the successful sociopath and thinks it’s normal to dream of becoming like him.”
― Gary Indiana

“Affection is the mortal illness of lonely people.”
― Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy

“Now nothing is happening and nothing will ever happen again. Money has taken away everything.”
― Gary Indiana

“I desire you, it's as simple and awful as that.... it's idiotic, but I love you.”
― Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy

“Homosexuals are... widely consigned to the same category of things as drugs, the category of illicit dirty things that people have to be protected from... since the homosexual is continually taught by the world around him that his natural home is the sewer, the homosexual is uniquely equipped to discover what truly belongs and doesn't belong in the sewer.”
― Gary Indiana, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story

“I'm like real squeamish about my own insides, which so far, knock wood, haven't given me too many problems. I guess it's better to know what goes on in there, but let's face it, all that stuff inside you turns against you sooner or later and thinking about it day in day out could drive somebody right over the edge.”
― Gary Indiana, Rent Boy

“It's a fact [...} that most well-known people are even more fucked up than the general run of humanity. They are driven to accomplish extraordinary things because they are deeply dangerously wounded in some part of their being. they are impelled by their own pain to impress and dominate others with their accomplishments”
― Gary Indiana, Resentment: A Comedy

“I think I've overheard a million john life stories and another million whore life stories and once you plow off the bullshit the john's story's always "I'm lonely" and the whore's story's always "I came from a dysfunctional family.”
― Gary Indiana, Rent Boy

“We're just two vague mammals humping.”
― Gary Indiana, Rent Boy

“You want a horror picture with Karen Black, or a comedian sticking his head up his ass at the Comedy Club. Not how they're cloning rhinos in Santa Barbara to keep the gene pool active for some future time. What future time, I'd like to know.”
― Gary Indiana, Rent Boy

“People went to the office out of some perverse lack of interest in golf, or surfing, or betting on the World Cup.”
― Gary Indiana, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story

“It was all my c*nt this and my c*nt that for two hundred pages, stick your big dick in my c*nt sort of stuff. But literary, you know.”
― Gary Indiana, Rent Boy