really into every time tom waits talks about his wife

“…a remarkable collaborator, and she’s a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck. Expert on the African violet and all that. She’s outta this world. I don’t know what to say. I’m a lucky man. She has a remarkable imagination. And that’s the nation where I live. She’s bold, inventive and fearless. That’s who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.”

“She’s quick - she can catch a bullet in her teeth. She has a pet snake, reads The Wall Street Journal, has a ‘64 Caddy, and loves periodicals. She’s from Johnsburgh. Illinois; that’s the last place you can get margarine before you cross the Wisconsin border. No one makes me laugh like Kathleen…She’s great in emergencies and she’s brutally honest.”

“She’ll start kind of talking in tongues, and I take it all down. She goes places… I can’t get to those places. Too, I don’t know… pragmatic. She’s the egret of the family. I’m the mule. I write mostly from the world, the news, and what I really see from the counter, or hear. She’s more impressionistic. She dreams like Hieronymus Bosch. She’s been a lot of things. She drove a truck for a while. Had her own pilot’s license. Worked as a soda jerk. Ran a big hotel in Miami. She was going to be a nun. When I met her, she was at the corner of nun or ruin. So together it’s You wash, I’ll dry. It works.”

“She’s like a heavy equipment operator and a clairvoyant — it’s rare you get that together…a tree surgeon and a ventriloquist, astronaut and private eye. You’re always looking for those two things. A newspaperman and a bathing beauty. It’s a combination that works for us, ‘cause a lot of times, I’m in a stroller waiting to be pushed out into traffic. She’s the one that’ll do it.”

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Source: tomwaitslibrary.com

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    is so perfect oh oh oh
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  6. trecelunas said: as much as I’m against seeking self-worth in the praise of others, if someone said this about me I would sob.
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