Cruising Quotes

“Go small, go simple, go now”
― larry pardey, Cruising in Seraffyn

“This was a respect in which he paid due homage to the wise old spirit of the late Emiel Kroger, that romantically practical Teuton who used to murmur to Pablo, between sleeping and waking, a sort of incantation that went like his: Sometimes you will find it and other times you won't find it and the times you don't find it are the times when you have got to be careful. Those are the times when you have got to remember that other times you will find it, not this time but the next time, or the time after that, and then you've got to be able to go home without it, yes, those times are the times when you have got to be able to go home without it, go home alone without it...”
― Tennessee Williams, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now

“I'm not cruisin' this opportunity in time and space for you to like or dislike my 'get-down'; I'm here 'cause I'm down to get it right by the time I return to the 'mothaship'. I remain a work in progress.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for most
of us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival.”
― Jim Trefethen, The Cruising Life: A Commonsense Guide for the Would-Be Voyager

“The sea: you watch it for a while, lose interest, and then, because there is nothing else to look at, go back to watching it. It fills you with great thoughts which, leading nowhere and having nothing to focus on except the unfocused mass of the sea, dissolve into a vacancy which in turn, for want of any other defining characteristic, you feel content to term 'awe'.”
― Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

“cruise the ones in the flesh, not the ghosts on the internet”
― Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform

“[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And I think cruising is that too: a training in reading occult codes; a way of seeing a significance in the world that most people don’t see.”
― Garth Greenwell

“Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising altitude are approximately 28 times higher than ground level.”
― Steven Magee, Health Forensics

“I discovered the jungle of Central Park—between the 60s and 70s, on the west side. In the afternoons, Sundays especially, a parade of hunters prowled that area—or they would sit or lie on the grass waiting for that day’s contact.”
― John Rechy, City of Night

“I sailed to Cuba with last August and intend to return to Cuba in September of this year.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One"

“Tall, beefy, and brown, I give the people what they want. You’d be surprised how many White dudes fantasize about a Mandingo warrior stepping out of the jungle and into their bedrooms and aren’t afraid to tell you. Most Black guys are looking for tops, too. They want the Hard Rock brother or the B-boy fantasy that no one would suspect of being gay outside of the bedroom. It’s funny how we all seem to crave the man we want to be.”
― Cary Alan Johnson, Desire Lines

“Um pinto. Uma vitória.”
― Bernardo E. Lopes, O que disse o Imperador

“Nighty Night Sailboat answered, “Well, Juni, home is where I am.”
Juni thought, “You are so right. I am always home with you.”
“Nighty Night, Juni.”
“Nighty Night, Sailboat.”
― Renne Siewers