Jim Cherry > Jim's Quotes

“If you would like to know more about me look to the pages of my books and you'll find me in between the lines.”
― Jim Cherry

“...the nuclear family went critical...”
― Jim Cherry, Becoming Angel

“I blew into L.A. streaking down the freeway, the song "L.A. Woman" blasting out of the car speakers, the wind in my hair, the music in the wind. The first thing you notice about L.A. is that it’s overflowing with people, tourists, the homeless, the starstruck, it was like an old fashioned boom town, a few ghosts wandered it’s streets but it was still booming, if L.A. lived off the people that were successful, the city would be awfully empty.”
― Jim Cherry, The Last Stage

“Isatai started chanting, drums pounding, the rhythm gathered and met the beat of their hearts, and that sound matched their thoughts. It was one sound they could hear, then they felt a deep pounding of hooves vibrating through their bodies. As they stared into the fire they saw the face of a great buffalo, its mane, flame. It grew in their eyes, engulfing them in its spirit, the vision raced through their hearts like an engine.”
― Jim Cherry, The Captured Dead

“Mackenzie, our profession courts death, madness is always just over the next rise, the next hillock…” Sherman’s voice dropped off, “I’m out in that landscape wavering between madness and sanity. Be careful Mackenzie you don’t cross over that rise and find yourself in the arid desert of madness … I fear it is this desert for me.”
― Jim Cherry, The Captured Dead

“The night came on as swift and soft as a velvet dream. I was scrunched down in the front seat of my car in Neal's driveway trying to become part of the darkness.”
― Jim Cherry, Becoming Angel

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I don't mind walking the tight rope. Something strong is holding it”
― James Byron Dean

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.”
― Raymond Carver

“I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.”
― Raymond Carver, Cathedral

“When you live in the dark for so long, you begin to love it. And it loves you back, and isn’t that the point? You think, the face turns to the shadows, and just as well. It accepts, it heals, it allows. But it also devours.”
― Raymond Carver

“What good are insights? They only make things worse.”
― Raymond Carver

“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?”
― Raymond Carver

“Be the change you want to see in the world”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writing about them everybody'll give up reading in despair-There'll be an Explosion of childhoods and pasts, they'll have to have a giant Brain print them out microscopically on film to be stored in a warehouse on Mars to give Heaven Seventy Kotis to catch up on all that reading- Seventy Million Million Kotis! - Whoopee! - Everything is free!”
― Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels