Tom Cardamone Quotes

If beauty was in the eye of the beholder, he was going to be one hell of a beholder.

~ Tom Cardamone

Be calm. Keep reading.

~ Tom Cardamone

He craved sex and chocolate. Chocolate was his heroin. Men were his needle.

~ Tom Cardamone

Sure that there was an attainable bliss somewhere beyond the decimal point in the p of his sexual trysts, I felt that maybe he had already attained what I was looking for, a more instinctual regard for sex, an equality among thirsts. He had done what I wanted to do: washed the wound of appetite in a relentless waterfall of sweat and semen.

~ Tom Cardamone

Contemporary novels can have a fleeting existence within the current multiplication of medias and the technological rapidity with which art is delivered and consumed. A cultural lacuna has opened, one that needs arresting.

~ Tom Cardamone

Colonel Sanders as played by Hot Daddy Harrison Ford, cracking the whip on some island plantation, topping every native boy, stopping only long enough to enjoy a refreshing Coca Cola. Because every white guy is a blonde, Aryan top. All of us are the Christian Soldiers of Capitalism that flew TWA into your country, depositing AIDs in your brothels and IMF loans in your banks.

~ Tom Cardamone

I could hear an old man in the stall next to ours sucking a hustler’s cock, I thought of animals gathering at a salt lick during the night near a cave: carnivore rubbing shoulders with deer.

~ Tom Cardamone

Most species of dragons had retired or, mistaken for dinosaurs, collectively hung their bones in museums, waiting in the wings for just the right time to reemerge, to scorch schools and char church parking lots.

~ Tom Cardamone

Never bet the devil your head.

~ Tom Cardamone