Garth Greenwell Quotes

the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels like from the inside.

[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And I think cruising is that too: a training in reading occult codes; a way of seeing a significance in the world that most people don’t see.