Tropic of Cancer (1970)

David Baur: Carl

Quotes 

• Carl : [Reading the letter he wrote]  You send me golden apples, Irene dear. And gifts of shaggy chestnuts too.

  Henry Miller : She hasn't given you anything has she?

  Carl : No. But I like the word, shaggy.

• Carl : She said she was turning forty. That means fifty... or sixty. It'd be like fucking your own mother.

• Carl : The best thing would be to marry her, and then get a good disease right away. You wouldn't have to worry about laying her and you wouldn't have to worry about the rent either. That's the best solution for a writer. Listen. All I want is a good wheelchair and three meals a day. Then, I'd give them something to read, those pricks.