Denis Johnson

“Sometimes I don't know what I'm doing.”

“There’s no such thing as a problem. There are only situations. It’s all in how you look at it.”

“His life was a festival of errors.”

“Heroism is a badly constructed myth.”

“All around them men were walking, shouting, dying, but the two of them walked on untouched, untouchable, in a bubble of lucidity, in a single straight line.”

“The past is a wilderness of horrors.”

“It's true that I'm taking a chance, but that's what a man is. A man is a thing that takes a chance.”

“He was a good-looking kid, not stupid, and not a bad guy, but he was a mess.”

“What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.”

“And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.”

“I knew every last thing about her and I was sick to death of her. But I loved her.”

“It's raining in my heart.”