The Purdzilla Show

"You don't think we change, then." "Change? No. What we do is adapt. Get by. Time you're ten, twelve years old, it's pretty much set in you, what you're going to be like, what your life's going to be." James Sallis (in Drive )

In the parking lot he leaned against the Chevy, stood looking off towards the mountain ranges ringing Tucson. Catalinas to the north, Santa Rita to the south, Rincon east, Tucson west. The whole city was a compass. How could anyone ever have gotten so hopelessly lost here? James Sallis (in Drive )

It was the sixties, a woman said on the radio, and I decided to drop out, really drop out. I went down to Sears and bought me a sleeping bag, a camp stove, some heavy boots. Gave everything else away to friends. Then I hitched out to the middle of Montana with everything I owned stuffed into a backpack. Found this neat cave. Moved in. Lived there four days in absolute, wonderful solitude; and on the fifth day the bear came back. James Sallis (from Death Will Have Your Eyes )