Terrance Hayes Quotes

Ask a glass of water why it pities the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.