Quote Archive for: Oct 1, 2001 to Sep 12, 2001
"If you live your life trying to please everyone, you'll eventually turn into one of those old circus elephants who one day decides to trample his trainer instead of standing on the ball."
"I no longer know if these fragments I have been writing are confessions, poems, or prayers."
"People move, life is more like a wild dance than a ceremony. You just can't tell what's coming next."
"And yet I feel like a fraud. Sure, writing about the attacks, recording them, has value in its way. But that's all I do -- write, smoke, think about boys."
"When I talked about God lifting the curtain of protection on our nation, I should have made it very clear that no one on this earth knows whether or not that occurred or did not occur."
"Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now."
"Nothing about the international picture. Totally self-obsessed. Childlike. Bedtime stories. I'm an adult."
"The worst-case scenario of crossing the road, after all, is that you'll be hit by a truck and killed. Yet we all do cross roads every day, and could hardly function if we did not. To live by the worst-case scenario is to grant the terrorists their victory without a shot having been fired."