Richard Gerlach

“He who grows smaller and smaller in God’s grand scheme of things, until he is invisible to all but himself.”
― Bruce Boston, Sacrificial Nights

“She was sitting on the floor, naked, in a skitter of green bills. Beyond her was the custodian, still simpering in death. She was scooping up handfuls of the green money and dropping it on top of her head so that it came sliding down along the cream-colored hair, slipping down along her shoulders and body. She was making a noise I never heard come out of a human being. It was a scream that was a whisper and a laugh that was a cry. Over and over. The noise and the scooping. The slippery, sliding bills against the rigid body.   She”
― Elliott Chaze, Black Wings Has My Angel

“Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too. Of course a poor man quits being poor when he dies, but that is not a thing to lament.  ”
― Elliott Chaze, Black Wings Has My Angel