Rodney Ross Quotes

“Sometimes you must go too far to see what would suffice.”

— Rodney Ross

“I just wait to go elsewhere but I get there and it's the same dusk.”

— Rodney Ross

“Pride starts with the penis.”

— Rodney Ross

“You can't go home again, not if you can't find the fucking street, Mr. Wolfe.”

— Rodney Ross

“You call our upbringing normal?"
"Mostly, yes! Don't get all revisionist. I was queer and lonely. You were weird and hungry. It wasn't nature or nurture. We're the ones who cultivated our abnormalities.”

— Rodney Ross

“No man is an island."
"So I'm a peninsula. Only semi-detached.”

— Rodney Ross

“Like I'm listening to a garden seashell for the echo of her take-no-prisoners affection, I lay my head against Mom's cold pillow.”

— Rodney Ross

What a mealy-mouth. Windier than a bag of assholes.

— Rodney Ross

“I guess not everyone gets their Stonewall.”

— Rodney Ross

“Go out looking for the end of a rainbow and there might only be a Port-A-Let.”

— Rodney Ross

But at what age are you forgiven your trespasses?

— Rodney Ross

“Piss on reset. Wherever you land, when you get there, man, hit play.”

— Rodney Ross

How did, all of a sudden, my middling desire to spend quality time in another's company become overwhelming?

— Rodney Ross

Serenity is found when wading into it.

— Rodney Ross

“My learning curve has had more squiggles than I counted on.”

— Rodney Ross

“One look at you, and I said to myself: this is a man who can bring you some peace ...”

— Rodney Ross

“So how old was Miss Brodie, when she was in her damn prime?”

— Rodney Ross

I get it, let's just all write SOS on the ballot. Same Old Shit!

— Rodney Ross

“Life doesn't have compartments."
"Don't kid yourself. Niches and cubbyholes contain us," I reply.”

— Rodney Ross

“I stare at the beauty that comes automatically bundled and unappreciated with youth. I can't be this anymore.”

— Rodney Ross

“My body speaks. Actually, it's ready to shout itself hoarse.”

— Rodney Ross

“I awake to canine asshole. "Noel, get your twinkler outta here!" I scream.
Andy's in his favourite cargo shorts ... "But wouldn't mankind be better off if we all did the Presentation of the Anus? Summit meetings of world leaders should be preceded by a Presentation of the Anus."
"It would give new meaning to dirty politics," I say, still pushing Noel away.”

— Rodney Ross

“Never make sport, no matter how lighthearted, of someone's vocation.”

— Rodney Ross

Will I ever be happy again?"
"Do we even know we're happy when we're happy?

— Rodney Ross

“Just be careful of the what-ifs, she warns. They'll tumble in your head like laundry that won't dry.”

— Rodney Ross

“It was just one push/pull in our twenty-three years on the push/pull continuum. When my own was airless and warm, I would reach out, pat, find that unoccupied part, the cool part of his pillow.”

— Rodney Ross

“In youth, you want someone to build a life with. After fifty, you just want someone who can handle salt.”

— Rodney Ross

“Were there Madison County bridges or were they all trysts in tool sheds?”

— Rodney Ross