Kent Anderson > Quotes

“Nobody has any rights unless they've got a machine gun.”
― Kent Anderson, Night Dogs

“They’d promised to stay away from each other for the night, each of them alone in his own bleak room, and they both waved goodbye when he drove off. He raised his hand in response and caught himself hoping they’d be okay. What was he doing? They were drunk and psychotic black men in Oakland. They’d never be okay. They were fucked and doomed and beyond help.”
― Kent Anderson, Green Sun

“with the Piedmont PD. He didn’t talk about the war much, but he’d been in some shit, Hanson could tell. “Hanson, you got some kind of death wish. You’re”
― Kent Anderson, Green Sun

“Sometimes the dogs attacked grown men, even cops, as if they wanted to die, growing bolder and more dangerous in the summer, when people stayed out after dark, and rabies began to spread. It came with warm weather, and carried by the night wind and nocturnal animals gone mad - prehistoric possums with pig eyes and needle teeth, squealing in the alleys. Rats on the sidewalks at noon, sluggish and dazed. Raccoons hissing in the nettles and high grass along polluted golf course creeks. Feral cats, bats falling from the sky, dreamy-eyed skunks staggering out of the West Hills, choking on their own tongues, their hearts shuddering with the virus they carried, an evil older than cities or civilization - messengers perhaps, sent by some brooding, wounded promise we betrayed and left for dead back when the world was still only darkness and frozen seas.”
― Kent Anderson, Night Dogs

“It was a club rule that monkeys had to be diapered or they would not be admitted.”
― Kent Anderson, Sympathy for the Devil