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Looking After Joey QUOTES

Looking After Joey QUOTES

1 " What was it with gay men and art photos of nude male torsos? "

― David Pratt , Looking After Joey

2 " This, Calvin realised, as Joey grinned and told him sweetly to “Suck that dick” was what it was like to be God: utter confidence, utter trust, utter ease with yourself, no move you could not make, no tank top you could not wear, no guy who would not worship you, not ever. This was the end state. Bliss. "

― David Pratt , Looking After Joey

3 " His face clouded over when Calvin and Peachy tried to explain women. Peachy pressed on bravely. “Now, the purpose of the vagina,” he was saying. He stopped and said to Calvin, “Why can’t we just buy him a book? "

― David Pratt , Looking After Joey

4 " There are certain things every gay man has to know. "

― David Pratt , Looking After Joey

5 " Fuck you, diet,” said Stuart. “The diet schmeer is the end of civilisation as we know it. "

― David Pratt , Looking After Joey

6 " It was all very utopian, but it gave one nothing to get, to win, to hold onto. There were no distances, so there was also no closeness. "

― David Pratt , Looking After Joey

7 " I mean, there’s no sun and no hot guys. What is this awful place, Calvin?”
“It’s my apartment. "

― David Pratt , Looking After Joey

8 " Human relations had become a cock-block. "

― David Pratt , Looking After Joey

9 " Joey broke the silence. “MS?” he asked.
“Microsoft,” said Calvin. “Or multiple sclerosis. Computer programs everyone has to use, or a debilitating disease. That’s life, in a nutshell. "

― David Pratt , Looking After Joey

10 " Bunce films them. So Joey who came out of one porn film would go into another. It could fuck up the whole space-time continuum. They could prosecute us.”
“For?”
“Meta-fiction in the first degree? "

― David Pratt , Looking After Joey

11 " So basically,” Calvin said, “this is My Fair Lady in a walk-up on West Twenty-Second Street with no music and no Julie Andrews. "

― David Pratt , Looking After Joey

12 " The golden middle age Calvin had envisioned was almost upon him, not shining on a hill but huddled in a concrete canyon, littered with lost opportunities. "

― David Pratt , Looking After Joey