Our No. 1 goal is to save American lives, and this comprehensive plan reaffirms President Trump's commitment to addressing the opioid crisis aggressively and in partnership with our partners across the nation, we must be relentless in our efforts to tackle the scourge of addiction that has affected so many families and communities across the United States. The Strategy builds upon our current whole-of-government approach that educates Americans about the dangers of drug abuse, ensures those struggling with addiction get the help they need, and stops the flow of illegal drugs across our borders.

Jim Carroll

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Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

Jim Carroll

conscience

It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.

Jim Carroll

girl dream beautiful

On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.

Jim Carroll

loyalty body watches

I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

Jim Carroll

mines dies sin

You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show

Jim Carroll

fashion heart giving

Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.

Jim Carroll

color light dream

My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

Jim Carroll

quiver arrows voice

You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.

Jim Carroll

growing-up sorry rain

Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.

Jim Carroll

lightning play way

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

Jim Carroll

pain joy boys

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

Jim Carroll

branches light kids

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

Jim Carroll

falling-in-love want too-late

I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.

Jim Carroll

morning night window

Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.

Jim Carroll

purpose brain long

If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.

Jim Carroll

powerful jobs children

There are times when the vehicle is in the ready mode, there are no indications externally that the vehicle can move and yet if someone accidentally hits the pedal, say when someone's inside, the car will move.

Jim Carroll

pedals car moving

all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay

Jim Carroll

pay

Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.

Jim Carroll

uniforms team real

I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic ritual; it's a transubstantiation, and the stations of the cross - I mean, a crown of thorns? Getting whipped? It's punk rock.

Jim Carroll

crown loved never magic

I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz - he was about 14 or 15 - and he said, 'Y'know, I love 'The Basketball Diaries,' but I hope your next book of poetry isn't gonna be as academic as 'Living at the Movies' was.'

Jim Carroll

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