Walter Kirn Quotes
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.
Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.
He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.
The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.
Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.
The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.
In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.
You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.
What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.
I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.
I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.
Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.
The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.
Liars are exhausting people.
This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky, ' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.
