Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

— Chris Campanioni

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

— Chris Campanioni

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

— Chris Campanioni

It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.

— Chris Campanioni

It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be. In actuality, or in each reality, underneath it all—I mean, behind it—the answer lies in

— Chris Campanioni

It’s television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.

— Chris Campanioni

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Cricket-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

— Chris Campanioni

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.

— Chris Campanioni

Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending.

— Chris Campanioni

Tangerine tango was still in. Cardigans without buttons were in. Bahia bands were in. Senior do Confirm. Make a wish? But hardly anyone considered the most radical move: be yourself. Beauty is always a revolutionary act.

— Chris Campanioni