Tom Cardamone Quotes & Sayings

I wish I were writing this on you. — Tom Cardamone

Most species of dragons had retired or, mistaken for dinosaurs, collectively hung their bones in museums, waiting in the wings for just the right time to reemerge, to scorch schools and char church parking lots. — Tom Cardamone

The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history. — Tom Cardamone

When you want something as powerful and necessary as love, you don't reach back, you reach forward. — Tom Cardamone

If beauty was in the eye of the beholder, he was going to be one hell of a beholder. — Tom Cardamone

Lost love weighs heavier than lost time. — Tom Cardamone

He craved sex and chocolate. Chocolate was his heroin. Men were his needle. — Tom Cardamone

Colonel Sanders as played by Hot Daddy Harrison Ford, cracking the whip on some island plantation, topping every native boy, stopping only long enough to enjoy a refreshing Coca Cola. Because every white guy is a blonde, Aryan top. All of us are the Christian Soldiers of Capitalism that flew TWA into your country, depositing AIDs in your brothels and IMF loans in your banks. — Tom Cardamone

I could hear an old man in the stall next to ours sucking a hustler's cock; I thought of animals gathering at a salt lick during the night near a cave: carnivore rubbing shoulders with deer. — Tom Cardamone

Real fear resides not in what is coming after you, but what lies in wait. — Tom Cardamone

Sure that there was an attainable bliss somewhere beyond the decimal point in the p of his sexual trysts, I felt that maybe he had already attained what I was looking for, a more instinctual regard for sex, an equality among thirsts. He had done what I wanted to do: washed the wound of appetite in a relentless waterfall of sweat and semen. — Tom Cardamone

I've always assumed the old men were just there, fixed, like lamps, but in love with their moths. — Tom Cardamone

When you can hear someone giving head but can't see them, it sounds terribly like a child eating spaghetti. — Tom Cardamone

Never bet the devil your head. — Tom Cardamone

Next door I could hear the old man's soul flap its heavy vermillion butterfly wings as the hustler shot a load down his throat. — Tom Cardamone

Imagine how much more frightening death must be to an immortal? — Tom Cardamone

Be calm. Keep reading. — Tom Cardamone

Ageing must be like wearing a heavy, itchy suit. — Tom Cardamone

Books about books are a rare species, special tomes for writers and book lovers. More than an affirmation of taste, a book about books is often a spirited celebration and sincere investigation. Quickly coveted, it remains on that particular shelf, guarded and revered, and eventually slips out of print. What good company we will keep then, among a library lost, only momentarily invisible, waiting patiently to be found. — Tom Cardamone

You marry the one who will be a good father, not a good lay. — Tom Cardamone

Contemporary novels can have a fleeting existence within the current multiplication of medias and the technological rapidity with which art is delivered and consumed. A cultural lacuna has opened, one that needs arresting. — Tom Cardamone