Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll
James Dennis "Jim" Carrollwas an American author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll...
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth1 August 1949
CityNew York City, NY
conscience
Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
beautiful girl dream
It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.
growing-up sorry rain
You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.
jobs children powerful
If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.
kids light branches
Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.
pain boys joy
I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy,
falling-in-love too-late want
It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.
morning night window
I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.
dream light color
Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.
moving car pedals
There are times when the vehicle is in the ready mode, there are no indications externally that the vehicle can move and yet if someone accidentally hits the pedal, say when someone's inside, the car will move.
team real uniforms
Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.
couple cross either exactly feet fell hit landed members middle support
Where she fell was in between the cross members that support the fabric. She landed in the middle and it cradled her. She hit it exactly right. A couple feet either way and ...
feeling
We're feeling ecstatic. It's been a long haul, and we're done with it now.
problem selling
The problem is the product's selling too well,