Todd Goddard > Quotes

“That he didn’t succumb to a full-blown drug addiction he credited to his love for food. Nothing blew the glories of a wonderful meal quicker and more completely than the “stomach-constricting anxious energy” of a few lines. Despite his love for the drug, Jim would not let anyone use coke before a meal when he cooked, because it created “a sort of bubblegum nimbus that slaughters the palate and sensuous capacities, in addition to shrinking the wee-wee and tearing holes in the social fabric.” Even in La Paz, Jim had managed to set aside time for splendid meals, apparently between cocaine binges. “In”
― Todd Goddard, Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, a Writer’s Life

“Of course a poem is not a revelation but a process of revelation,”
― Todd Goddard, Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, a Writer’s Life

“bluster” out of his life, and it led to what he would term “a mental crack up” that winter, a depression that felt different from others because it came from the outside rather than within. “I had not only pulled the rug out from under myself. I had also removed the floor and basement.” His”
― Todd Goddard, Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, a Writer’s Life

“I wish to die as a modest wino with garlic breath.”
― Todd Goddard, Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, a Writer’s Life

“Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.”
― Todd Goddard, Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, a Writer’s Life