“ Talking with Elaine like that, with no judgment from her or anything, seemed to bring my feelings more to the surface so I could look at them. I love times like that; you don't get many of them.(Walke… Chris Crutcher
“ ...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a… Chris Crutcher
“ When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact exper… Chris Crutcher
“ 144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want to be loved. We wan… Chris Crutcher
“ If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation. Chris Crutcher
“ What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and wri… Chris Crutcher
“ I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife cris… Chris Crutcher
“ A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas. Chris Crutcher
“ ...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. Chris Crutcher
“ We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are". She looked back out the window. "It was that way for me and your brother, I think. I mean, how could I have loved him that… Chris Crutcher
“ Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence the… Chris Crutcher
“ Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intr… Chris Crutcher
“ He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens. Chris Crutcher
“ 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 n… Chris Crutcher
“ You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you don't stand up for your own Chris Crutcher
“ ...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. Chris Crutcher
“ Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride. Chris Crutcher
“ From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes looks just like the rest of us. And if she's going to get help, she'll get it from herself or she'll… Chris Crutcher
“ There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is… Chris Crutcher
