Chris Crutcher

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

— Chris Crutcher

Nothing exists without its opposite.

— Chris Crutcher

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

— Chris Crutcher

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

— Chris Crutcher

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

— Chris Crutcher