Jim Grimsley Quotes

#1. Words created the future, exacerbated problems, raised barriers between them. But in the silence of Ford's sleep, Ford could love Dan easily; in the stillness of Ford's rest, Dan could adore him without question or fear.

Jim Grimsley

#2. The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

Jim Grimsley

#3. For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing.

Jim Grimsley

#4. He asks, in a softer voice, "Does your arm still hurt?"
You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone, leaving only the little, underneath ache that will gather and swell against the bone. The blood leaks out of the vein where he grabbed you. But you say, "It's better now.

Jim Grimsley

#5. Faced with an excess of beauty the mind can often only drink.

Jim Grimsley

#6. Night is falling. The gods have left us for those who please them better. Our time in the world is passed, and we are as wasted as the wind against the mountains. Shadows are falling, the gods have left us.

Jim Grimsley

#7. No group is worth joining if everybody is welcome.

Jim Grimsley