Diane

“As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child." No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of a cool dude like Jesus taking a rod to a kid.”
― Chris Crutcher, King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography – The Riveting, Laugh-Out-Loud Funny Young Adult Coming-of-Age Memoir

“I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.”
― Chris Crutcher, Deadline

“I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.”
― Chris Crutcher, Deadline

“I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.”
― Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes